The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

¹It is granted that this assent is in Faith, for Faith alway hath respect to some testimony, for man by his fall hath lost all knowledge of divine and supernatural truths; hence God reveals them in his word; hence faith sees them and assents to them, because God hath spoken them: to see and know things by vision, is to see things in themselves intuitively and immediately; but to see things by Faith is to see them by and in a testimony given of them. John 20.20. Blessed is he that hath not seen, (i. e. Christ immediately) but believed, i. e. his testimony, and on him in it; this assent therefore is in Faith (for we must believe Christ before ⟨p. 159⟩we can believe in him) but this comprehends not the whole nature of faith, I mean of that faith we are now speaking of, viz. a• it unites us to Christ, and possesseth us with Christ. For,

¹It is granted that this assent is in Faith, for Faith alway hath respect to some testimony, for man by his fall hath lost all knowledge of divine and supernaturall truths; hence God reveales them in his word; hence faith sees them and assents to them, because God hath spoken them: to see and know things by vision, is to see things in themselves intuitively and immediately; but to see things by Faith is to see them by and in a testimony given of them. Iohn 20.20. Blessed is he that hath not seen, (i. e. Christ immediately) but beleeved, i. e. his testimony, and on him in it; this assent therefore is in Faith (for we must beleeve Christ before ⟨p. 159⟩we can beleeve in him) but this comprehends not the whole nature of faith, I meane of that faith we are now speaking of, viz. a• it unites us to Christ, and possesseth us with Christ. For,

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