A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The true and safe grounds of encouragement to faith in Christ are these. First, Christs all-sufficiency, if he will he can, He is able to save to the uttermost, Heb: 7. 25. art thou a sinner to the uttermost, his plaster is broad enough to cover the broadest sore. As Gods mercy, so Christs merit is infinite, and the reason is, because the blood is the blood of God as well as of man, Act: 20. 28. This is a good strong foundation of comfort, if a soul convinced of its own sinful estate, and of the vanity of creature comforts, doth so far settle its thoughts upon Christ that as he is the only Saviour so an all-sufficient Saviour. Then is the sinner so far encouraged (which is no small encouragement) as to resolve there is virtue enough in the blood of Christ to cleanse my crimson sins, even mine. There is no help for me out of Christ, but in him there is help for all that come unto God by him. Tis a great part of true faith to believe that Christ is able and all-sufficient. Therefore he himself said to the blind men, Mat. 9. 28, 29. Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, yea a Lord, then touched he their eyes saying according to your faith, be it unto you. He that ⟨p. 280⟩said, Lord if thou wil• thou canst make me clean, was not rejected by Christ as an unbeliever, but he got from him a good answer, I will, be thou clean, Mat: 8. 2, 3. So every poor sinner that comes unto Christ all-sufficient, and believing that Christ and Christ only can purge him from all sin and save his soul, hath a true, though imperfect faith, and is in a fair way for Salvation There is many a true believer, whose faith cannot as yet rise so high as to stay and rest upon the good will and love of Jesus Christ to him in particular: But the soul believes the all-sufficiency of Christ, and that he only is the Saviour, and so cometh and draweth near unto God by and in Christ, as the summum bonum which he values above all things; and this his faith, although it hath not yet attained to a particular recumbency on the love of Christ to him is a true faith, which Christ will not despise.

The true and safe grounds of encouragement to faith in Christ are these. First, Christs all-sufficiency, if he will he can, He is able to save to the uttermost, Heb: 7. 25. art thou a sinner to the uttermost, his plaister is broad enough to cover the broadest sore. As Gods mercy, so Christs merit is infinite, and the reason is, because the blood is the blood of God as well as of man, Act: 20. 28. This is a good strong foundation of comfort, if a soule convinced of its own sinfull estate, and of the vanity of creature comforts, doth so farre settle its thoughts upon Christ that as he is the only Saviour so an alsufficient Saviour. Then is the sinner so far encouraged (which is no smal encouragement) as to resolve there is vertue enough in the blood of Christ to cleanse my crimson sins, even mine. There is no help for me out of Christ, but in him there is help for all that come unto God by him. Tis a great part of true faith to believe that Christ is able and all-sufficient. Therefore he himself said to the blind men,