A51847:895
Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
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.
I. What Faith is. II. How this is to be understood. III. Why the Gospel Covenant layeth so much weight on it.
What is Faith? surely it concerns us to know it, since the Scriptures speak so much of it every-where. There are in it three things.
1. Assent. 2. Consent. 3. Trust.
1. A firm and cordial Assent to this Truth, that Jesus is the Son of God, and Saviour of Mankind; who came down from heaven, and suffered for our Sins, and became the Foundation of that new Covenant, which offereth Pardon and Hopes of Bliss to all those, who feeling the Burden of their Sins, will trust their Souls upon Christ's Redemption and Ransom, and forsake the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and take him for their only Lord and Saviour, that by him they may return to God. This Assent is a part of Faith, but this is not all. The reasonable Soul in Man hath Life, Sense, Appetite and Motion, as the Souls of the Beasts have; but this is not the difference between us and them: besides Sense, Life and Appetite, we have Reason and Discourse. So here, Knowledge and Assent are implied in Faith, but more is required to make it justifying and saying. Assent is good as it is inductive ⟨p. 309⟩