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…

1. Consider these Scriptures: John 6.35. I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth in me shall never thirst. Where you see coming to Christ and believing in Christ are all one. So John 7.37. In the last day of the feast the Lord Christ cries out with much vehemency, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. Now in the next ver. 38. our Saviour expounds this coming; for, saith he, He that believeth on me, out of his belly, &c. So to come to Christ, as upon this to drink in of Christs fullness, is believing in Christ. So Heb. 11.6. the Apostle saith, Without faith it is impossible to please God; and then in rendering the reason of this, explains what he meant by faith, viz. to be our coming unto God, upon a double testimony, believing f••st that he is, secondly, that he is a rewarder of them that seek him diligently: or (which is all one) who do come unto him. So John 1.12. So many as received him, (which is all one with coming) he adopted them as sons, even to them that believe in his Name. And hence we shall observe, that the Scripture doth not attribute our righteousness and life ⟨p. 182⟩to our believing of Christ, but to our believing on Christ in Christ, (a phrase peculiar to heavenly language, & therefore not found in any Humane Writer) because it is not the bare believing of a testimony that save thus, unless we so believe it, as to believe in Christ, which cannot be but by coming to him, and as it were in him, or into him, our union with Christ being made complete hereby.

1. Consider these Scriptures: Iohn 6.35. I am the bread of life, he that commeth to me shall never hunger, and he that beleeveth in me shall never thirst. Where you see comming to Christ and beleeving in Christ are all one. So Iohn 7.37. In the last day of the feast the Lord Christ cryrs out with much vehemencie, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. Now in the next ver. 38. our Saviour expounds this comming; for, saith he, He that beleeveth on me, out of his belly, &c. So to come to Christ, as upon this to drink in of Christs fulnesse, is beleeving in Christ. So