A65285:2704
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Use II. Trial. Let us try our Faith; there is something which looks like Faith, and is not. Pliny saith there is a Cyprian Stone, which is in Colour like a Diamond, but it is not of the right kind. There is a false spurious Faith in the World. Some Plants have the same Leaf with others, but the Herbalists can distinguish them by the Root and Taste. Something may look like true Faith, but it may be distinguished several ways.
Vse II. Trial. Let us try our Faith; there is something which looks like Faith, and is not. Pliny saith there is a Cyprian Stone, which is in Colour like a Diamond, but it is not of the right kind. There is a false spurious Faith in the World. Some Plants have the same Leaf with others, but the Herbalists can distinguish them by the Root and Taste. Something may look like true Faith, but it may be distinguished several ways.
(1.) Trial. True Faith is grounded upon Knowledge: Knowledge carries the Torch before Faith. There is a Knowledge of Christ's Orient Exercises, Phil. 3.8. He is [Greek or Hebrew], all made up of Love and Beauty. True Faith is a Judicious Intelligent Grace, it knows whom it believes, and why it believes. Faith is seated as well in the Understanding as the Will: It hath an Eye to see Christ, as well as a Wing to fly to him. Such therefore as are invailed with Ignorance; or have only an Implicit Faith, to believe as the Church believes, have no true genuine Faith.
(1.) Trial. True Faith is grounded upon Knowledge: Knowledge carries the Torch before Faith. There is a Knowledge of Christ's Orient Exercises, Phil. 3.8. He is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, all made up of Love and Beauty. True Faith is a Judicious Intelligent Grace, it knows whom it believes, and why it believes. Faith is seated as well in the Vnderstanding as the Will: It hath an Eye to see Christ, as well as a Wing to fly to him. Such therefore as are invailed with Ignorance; or have only an Implicit Faith, to believe as the Church believes, have no true genuine Faith.