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2. All the forementioned Description is of the Essence of justifying Faith, and not different from it, so far as it is conversant about Sin, or the Evil to be delivered from, by the Mediator. For it is doubtless of the Essence of justifying Faith, to embrace Christ as a Saviour from Sin and its Punishment, and all that is contained in that Act is contained in the Nature of Faith it self: But in the Act of embracing Christ as a Saviour from our Sin and its Punishment, is implied a Sense of our Sinfulness, and a Hatred of our Sins, or a rejecting them with Abhorrence, and a Sense of our Desert of their Punishment. An embracing Christ as a Saviour from Sin implies the contrary Act towards Sin, viz. rejecting of Sin: If we fly to the Light to be delivered from Darkness, the same Act is contrary towards Darkness, viz. a rejecting of it. In Proportion to the Earnestness or Appetite with which ⟨p. 110⟩we embrace Christ as a Saviour from Sin, in the same Proportion is the Abhorrence with which we reject Sin, in the same Act. Yea if we suppose there to be in the Nature of Faith as conversant about Sin, no more than the hearty embracing Christ as a Saviour from the Punishment of Sin, this Act will imply in it the whole of the abovementioned Description. It implies a Sense of our own Sinfulness: Certainly in the hearty embracing a Saviour from the Punishment of our Sinfulness, there is the Exercise of a Sense of our Sinfulness, or that we be sinful: We can't heartily embrace Christ as a Saviour from the Punishment of that which we are not sensible we are guilty of. There is also in the same Act, a Sense of our Desert of the threatened Punishment: We can't heartily embrace Christ as a Saviour from that, which we be not sensible that we have deserved: For if we are not sensible that we have deserved the Punishment, we should not be sensible that we have any Need of a Saviour from it, or at least, shall not be convinced but that the God that offers the Saviour, unjustly makes him needful; and we can't heartily embrace such an Offer. And further, there is implied in a hearty embracing Christ as a Saviour from Punishment, not only a Conviction of Conscience, that we have deserved the Punishment, such as the Devils and Damned have;

2. All the foremention'd Description is of the Essence of justifying Faith, and not different from it, so far as it is conversant about Sin, or the Evil to be deliver'd from, by the Mediator. For it is doubtless of the Essence of justifying Faith, to embrace Christ as a Saviour from Sin and its Punishment, and all that is contain'd in that Act is contain'd in the Nature of Faith it self: But in the Act of embracing Christ as a Saviour from our Sin and its Punishment, is implied a Sense of our Sinfulness, and a Hatred of our Sins, or a rejecting them with Abhorrence, and a Sense of our Desert of their Punishment. An embracing Christ as a Saviour from Sin implies the contrary Act towards Sin, viz. rejecting of Sin: If we fly to the Light to be delivered from Darkness, the same Act is contrary towards Darkness, viz. a rejecting of it. In Proportion to the Earnestness or Appetite with which