CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

3. There is the Faith of Miracles, which was granted in the primitive times of the Church, for the confirmation of the Gospel, and that sometimes to those who were not justified persons, and this had for the object of it a peculiar and special promise for the doing such or such miraculous effects, and answerable to this, some learned Divines do acknowledge still a special faith, whereby the godly are sometimes raised up for the effecting of a particular mercy, they stand in need of.

¹Lastly, There is this Justifying or saving Faith, which hath for it's proper object Christ crucified, and so by resting upon him brings reconciliation with God, and peace in the conscience. It's true, some distinguish between justifying faith, and saving, as if all that faith, which did justify, did not also save, but that is built upon that dangerous foundation, as if there might be Apostasy from the true faith.

¹Lastly, There is this Justifying or saving Faith, which hath for it's proper object Christ crucified, and so by resting upon him brings reconciliation with God, and peace in the conscience. It's true, some distinguish between justifying faith, and saving, as if all that faith, which did justifie, did not also save, but that is built upon that dangerous foundation, as if there might be Apostasie from the true faith.

1. 1The object of faith.

Now whether this distinction be exact, and in what sense it is to be made good, I shall not here dispute, but take it for a necessary truth.