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

Sixthly, As the Scripture expresseth faith, relating to the object believed, not to ⟨p. 544⟩the proposition, so at other times it doth express the proposition; Hence it hath often [Greek or Hebrew] put to it, Doest thou believe that I am the Son of God, or that I am sent from the Father? This is a proposition to be believed; but you must know, that faith as it justifieth, is not properly in that we believe such a proposition to be true, viz. That Christ is God, or that he will give eternal life to such as believe, but the ens incomplexum, that is, Christ himself in his Person and Offices, is the object of our justifying faith: Therefore Christ himself is said to dwell in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3. Even as the woman is married to the person of her husband, and not to the articles of agreement upon marriage; and this is that which makes faith to be so powerful and noble in it's efficacy, because Christ is hereby received in the soul, who is the author and fountain of all spiritual operations: So that as when the Sun ariseth in our hemisphere, it cannot but give light and heat; so also when the Sun of righteousness ariseth in our hearts, there is the Spirit of Christ also accompanying him in Sanctification and Mortification.

Sixthly, As the Scripture expresseth faith, relating to the object believed, not to ⟨p. 544⟩the proposition, so at other times it doth expresse the proposition; Hence it hath often 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 put to it, Doest thou believe that I am the Son of God, or that I am sent from the Father? This is a proposition to be believed; but you must know, that faith as it justifieth, is not properly in that we believe such a proposition to be true, viz. That Christ is God, or that he will give eternal life to such as believe, but the ens incomplexum, that is, Christ himself in his Person and Offices, is the object of our justifying faith: Therefore Christ himself is said to dwell in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3. Even as the woman is married to the person of her husband, and not to the articles of agreement upon marriage; and this is that which makes faith to be so powerfull and noble in it's efficacy, because Christ is hereby received in the soul, who is the authour and fountain of all spiritual operations: So that as when the Sun ariseth in our hemisphere, it cannot but give light and heat; so also when the Sun of righteousness ariseth in our hearts, there is the Spirit of Christ also accompanying him in Sanctification and Mortification.