The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

And all these things are so united, so intermixed in their mutual Relations and Respects, so concatenated in the purpose of God, and the Declaration made of his Will in the Gospel, as that the Believing of any one of them doth virtually ⟨p. 117⟩include the belief of the rest. And by whom any one of them is disbelieved, they frustrate and make void all the rest, and so Faith it self.

The due Consideration of these things solveth all the Difficulties that arise about the nature of Faith, either from the Scripture, or from the Experience of them that believe, with respect unto its Object. Many things in the Scripture are we said to believe with it and by it, and that unto Justification. But two things are hence evident. (1) That no one of them can be asserted to be the complete adequate Object of our Faith. (2) That none of them are so absolutely, but as they relate unto the Lord Christ, as the Ordinance of God for our Justification and Salvation.

The due Consideration of these things solveth all the Difficulties that arise about the nature of Faith, either from the Scripture, or from the Experience of them that believe, with respect unto its Object. Many things in the Scripture are we said to believe with it and by it, and that unto Justification. But two things are hence evident. (1) That no one of them can be asserted to be the compleat adequate Object of our Faith. (2) That none of them are so absolutely, but as they relate unto the Lord Christ, as the Ordinance of God for our Justification and Salvation.

And this answereth the Experience of all that do truly believe. For these things being united and made inseparable in the constitution of God, all of them are virtually included in every one of them. (1) Some fix their Faith and Trust principally on the Grace, Love, and Mercy of God; especially they did so under the Old Testament, before the clear Revelation of Christ and his Mediation. So did the Psalmist, Psal. 130.34.