Sermons preached

Again, They both agree in this, that they have a continual Influence upon our whole new Obedience: For the secondary Conditions of the Covenant do grow out of the first, and these two Graces run throughout our whole Life. Repentance, mortifying Sin is not a Work of a Day, but of our whole Lives, and the like is Faith.

Again, They agree in that both are effected and wrought in us by the holy Spirit, that God, who requires these things, gives them.

Lastly, They agree in this, that the one cannot be without the other, neither Repentance without Faith, nor Faith without Repentance; partly, because there is no Use of Faith without Repentance. Christ as Mediator is the means; now the means are of no use without respect ⟨p. 32⟩to the end. Now Christ and the whole Gospel-Grace is the means to come to God. Besides, these things cannot be Graces but in a Concomitancy. Repentance without Faith, what would it be? When we see our Sins, and bewail them, Despair would make us sit down and die, If there were not a Saviour to heal our Natures, and convert our Souls. Neither can Faith be without Repentance; for unless there be a Confession of past Sins, with a resolution of future Obedience, we continue in our Obstinacy and Stubbornness, and so we are uncapable of Mercy, our Case is not compassionable.

Lastly, They agree in this, that the one cannot be without the other, neither Repentance without Faith, nor Faith without Repentance; partly, because there is no Use of Faith without Repentance. Christ as Mediatour is the means; now the means are of no use without respect ⟨p. 32⟩to the end. Now Christ and the whole Gospel-Grace is the means to come to God. Besides, these things cannot be Graces but in a Concomitancy. Repentance without Faith, what would it be? When we see our Sins, and bewail them, Despair would make us sit down and dy, If there were not a Saviour to heal our Natures, and convert our Souls. Neither can Faith be without Repentance; for unless there be a Confession of past Sins, with a resolution of future Obedience, we continue in our Obstinacy and Stubbornness, and so we are uncapable of Mercy, our Case is not compassionable.