A37049:408
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The second end of Sacraments is to seal and confirm Gods mind and revealed will to man, and to put him out of question of the truth of his promises, that so he may have a further prop •o his Faith, and may draw more strong consolation from the promises of the Covenant upon this ground. In this respect they are called Seals (Rom. 4.11.) of the Righteousness by Faith, that is, not the Righteousness of Abraham's Faith, but of his obtaining Righteousness by IT, and not by works, that is, They are seals of that Covenant which offereth and promiseth Righteousness to such as believe: So was the Tree of Life a confirmation to Adam of the promise of Life; so was Circumcision to Abraham a Seal and Confirmation of the promises of the Gospel, as Gods Oath was, Heb. 6.18: And so are the Sacraments to us.
2. The second end of Sacraments is to seal and confirm Gods mind and revealed will to man, and to put him out of question of the truth of his promises, that so he may have a further prop •o his Faith, and may draw more strong consolation from the promises of the Covenant upon this ground. In this respect they are called Seals (Rom. 4.11.) of the Righteousness by Faith, that is, not the Righteousness of Abrahams Faith, but of his obtaining Righteousness by IT, and not by works, that is, They are seals of that Covenant which offereth and promiseth Righteousness to such as believe: So was the Tree of Life a confirmation to Adam of the promise of Life; so was Circumcision to Abraham a Seal and Confirmation of the promises of the Gospel, as Gods Oath was, Heb. 6.18: And so are the Sacraments to us.
This Confirmation may be three ways looked on: 1. As that which confirmeth the Proposition, 2. the Assumption, 3. the Conclusion of a practical Syllogism, whereby the Believer concludeth from the Gospel that he shall be saved.