1. The Gospel is the Revelation or Declaration of that way of Justification and Salvation for sinners by Jesus Christ, which God in infinite Wisdom, Love and Grace, hath prepared. And upon a supposition of the Reception thereof, it is accompanied with Precepts of Obedience, and Promises of Rewards. Therein the Righteousness of God, that which he ⟨p. 127⟩requires, accepts and approves unto Salvation, is revealed from Faith unto Faith, Rom. 1.17. This is the Record of God therein that he hath given unto us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son, 1 Joh. 5.10. So Joh. 3.14, 15, 16, 17. The Words of this Life, Act. 5.20. All the Counsel of God, Act. 20.27. Wherefore in the Dispensation or Preaching of the Gospel, this way of Salvation is proposed unto sinners, as the great Effect of divine Wisdom and Grace. Unbelief is the Rejection, Neglect, Non-admission, or Disapprobation of it, on the Terms whereon, and for the Ends for which it is so proposed. The Unbelief of the Pharisees upon the preparatory Preaching of John the Baptist is called the rejecting of the Counsel of God against themselves, that is, unto their own Ruin, Luke 7.30. They would none my Counsel, is an Expression to the same purpose, Prov. 1.30. so is, the neglecting of this great Salvation, Heb. 2.3. Not giving it that Admission which the Excellency of it doth require. A disallowing of Christ; The Stone [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Pet. 2.7. The Builders disapproved of, as not meet for that Place and Work whereunto it was designed, Act. 4.14. This is Unbelief. To disapprove of Christ and the Way of Salvation by him, as not answering Divine Wisdom nor suited unto the End designed. So is it described by the refusing or not receiving of him, all to the same purpose.
1. The Gospel is the Revelation or Declaration of that way of Justification and Salvation for sinners by Jesus Christ, which God in infinite Wisdom, Love and Grace, hath prepared. And upon a supposition of the Reception thereof, it is accompanied with Precepts of Obedience, and Promises of Rewards. Therein the Righteousness of God, that which he ⟨p. 127⟩requires, accepts and approves unto Salvation, is revealed from Faith unto Faith, Rom. 1.17. This is the Record of God therein that he hath given unto us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son, 1 Joh. 5.10. So Joh. 3.14, 15, 16, 17. The Words of this Life, Act. 5.20. All the Counsel of God, Act. 20.27. Wherefore in the Dispensation or Preaching of the Gospel, this way of Salvation is proposed unto sinners, as the great Effect of divine Wisdom and Grace. Ʋnbelief is the Rejection, Neglect, Non-admission, or Disapprobation of it, on the Terms whereon, and for the Ends for which it is so proposed. The Unbelief of the Pharisees upon the preparatory Preaching of John the Baptist is called the rejecting of the Counsel of God against themselves, that is, unto their own Ruine, Luke 7.30. They would none my Counsel, is an Expression to the same purpose, Prov. 1.30. so is, the neglecting of this great Salvation, Heb. 2.3. Not giving it that Admission which the Excellency of it doth require. A disallowing of Christ; The Stone 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 1 Pet. 2.7. The Builders disapproved of, as not meet for that Place and Work whereunto it was designed, Act. 4.14. This is Unbelief. To disapprove of Christ and the Way of Salvation by him, as not answering Divine Wisdom nor suited unto the End designed. So is it described by the refusing or not receiving of him, all to the same purpose.
