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…

Whereas that Faith which lets out those blessed springs of sorrow, love, thankfulness, humbleness, &c. what can it be else but such a saving faith as is wrought by the Spirit, because it lets in the Spirit more abundantly into a dry and desolate heart?

Whereas that Faith which lets out those blessed springs of sorrow, love, thankfulnesse, humblenesse, &c. what can it bee else but such a saving faith as is wrought by the Spirit, because it lets in the Spirit more abundantly into a dry and desolate heart?

2. The subject or matter of Faith.

This is the second thing in the description of Faith, the soul of an humbled sinner is the subject or matter of Faith. I do not mean the matter out of which Faith is wrought, (for there is nothing in man out of which the Spirit begets it) but that wherein Faith is seated; I mean also the habit of Faith, not the principle of it; for that ⟨p. 174⟩is out of man in the Lord Jesus, who is therefore called our hope, as well as our strength; the soul therefore is the subject of Faith, called the heart, Rom. 10.9. compared with Mat. 6.21. for we cannot go or come to Christ in this life with our bodies, we are here absent from the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. but the soul can go to him, the heart can be with him, as the eye can see a 1000 miles off, and receive the species or image of the things it sees into it, so the soul enlightened by faith, can see Christ a far off, it can long for, choose, and rest upon the Lord of life, and receive the lively image of Christs glory in it;