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The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer
The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believer by Thomas Watson.The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
THE CHRISTIANS Charter. › Chapter 20 › Section 2: §. II. That Consent is requisite to faith.
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2. The believer consents to have Christ for better for worse, a naked Christ, a persecuted Christ: faith sees a beauty and glory in the reproaches of Christ*, and will have Christ not only in purple but when with John Baptist he is clothed in Camels hair. Faith can embrace the fire, if Christ be in it. Faith looks ⟨p. 237⟩upon the Cross as Jacobs ladder, to carry him up to Heaven: Faith saith, Blessed be that affliction, welcome that Cross which carries Christ upon it.
2. The believer consents to have Christ for better for worse, a naked Christ, a persecuted Christ: faith sees a beauty and glory in the reproaches of Christ*, and will have Christ not only in purple but when with Iohn Baptist he is cloathed in Camels haire. Faith can embrace the fire, if Christ be in it. Faith looks ⟨p. 237⟩upon the Crosse as Iacobs ladder, to carry him up to Heaven: Faith saith, Blessed be that affliction, welcome that Crosse which carries Christ upon it.
3. The Believer consents to have Christ purely for love; if the §3wife should give her consent only for her husbands riches, she should marry his estate rather then his person; *non est amicitia, sed mercatura; it were not properly to make a marriage with him, but rather to make a merchandise of him: the believer consents for love,