The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

First, What was the way the Tempter took to overthrow our first Parents, and us in them? Observe it well, you will find he struck at this Faith of Assent, this Historical Faith, Gen. 3.1, 4. Yea hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden? He puts the question, and tries their Faith, whether they did believe that which God had said to be true: he tells the woman, ver. 4. Ye shall not surely die: Just cross to God, this which was the hedge to keep them from the Tree, he labours to pull down, and he doth that by weakening their faith, in giving assent to the Threat of God as being true: having once done that, he quickly attained his design: The woman could assent to him, though not to God,

First, What was the way the Tempter took to overthrow our first Parents, and us in them? Observe it well, you will find he struck at this Faith of Assent, this Historical Faith, Gen. 3.1, 4. Yea hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden? He puts the question, and tries their Faith, whether they did believe that which God had said to be true: he tells the woman, ver. 4. Ye shall not surely die: Just cross to God, this which was the hedge to keep them from the Tree, he labours to pull down, and he doth that by weakning their faith, in giving assent to the Threat of God as being true: having once done that, he quickly attained his design: The woman could assent to him, though not to God,

Secondly, What Faith was that in Peter (for faith it was the Devil aimed at, appears by Christs speech to him, Luke 22.32.) that Satan struck at? Observe it, and it was this Historical Faith: Peter, Matth. 16.16. had made ⟨p. 166⟩a good confession of Christ, Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. So again,