Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

And in this Text is declared, how Faith is wrought, and that is by the Word of truth; In whom also you trusted, after you had heard the Word of Truth. Now after this Faith, there cometh a sealing by the Spirit of God; In whom also after you believed, you were sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise. Now lest a man should through ignorance and indiscretion, be misled and deceived, there is faith, and there is feeling. Where this is not, I say, not that there is no faith; No: for feeling is an after thing, and comes after Faith. If we have Faith, we live by it; But after you believed, you were sealed. You see then Faith is that whereby we receive Jesus Christ, and to as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, to as many as believe on his name. The blood of Christ is that which cureth our souls, but (as I told you) it is by application. A Medicine heals not by being prepared, but being applied: so the blood of Christ shed for us, unless applied to us, doth us no good. In Heb. 12. Its called the blood of sprinkling: and that in the 51. Psalm, hath relation to it, where he saith, Purge me with hyssop. In the Passover there was blood to be shed, not to be spilt, but to be shed: and then to be gathered ⟨p. 413⟩up again, and put into a Basin, and when they had so done, they were to take a bunch of Hyssop and dip and sprinkle, &c. Faith is this bunch of Hyssop that dips it self as it were into the Basin of Christs blood, and our souls are purged by being sprinkled with it. In Levit. 14.6. There was a bird to escape alive; but see the preparation for it, You shall take it, and the scarlet, and the Cedar wood, and the Hyssop, and shall dip them, and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed, &c. and then you shall sprinkle on him that had the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. We are thus let loose, cleansed and freed; but how? unless we are dipped as the living bird was in the blood of the dead bird, there is no escaping, unless we are dipped in the blood of Christ Jesus this dead bird, and sprinkled with this Hyssop, we cannot be freed.

And in this Text is declared, how Faith is wrought, and that is by the Word of truth; In whom also you trusted, after you had heard the Word of Truth. Now after this Faith, there cometh a sealing by the Spirit of God; In whom also after you believed, you were sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise. Now lest a man should through ignorance and indiscretion, be misled and deceived, there is faith, and there is feeling. Where this is not, I say, not that there is no faith; No: for feeling is an after thing, and comes after Faith. If we have Faith, we live by it; But after you believed, you were sealed. You see then Faith is that whereby we receive Jesus Christ, and to as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the Sons of God, to as many as believe on his name. The blood of Christ is that which cureth our souls, but (as I told you) it is by application. A Medicine heals not by being prepared, but being applied: so the blood of Christ shed for us, unless applied to us, doth us no good. In