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father_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	10,213	4	5.4982	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63051	A vindication of the Protestant doctrine concerning justification, and of its preachers and professors, from the unjust charge of Antinomianism in a letter from a minister in the city, to a minister in the countrey.	Traill, Robert, 1642-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing T2023; ESTC R938	36,348	46

you Alas saith the poor Man My Heart is hard and I cannot repent aright yea I find my heart more hard and vile than when I was secure in sin If you speak to this man of qualifications for Christ he knows nothing of them if of sincere Obedience his answer is native and ready Obedience is the work of a living man and Sincerity is only in a renewed Soul sincere Obedience is therefore as impossible to a dead unrenewed sinner as perfect Obedience is Why should not the right answer be given Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved Tell him what Christ is what he hath done and suffered to obtain eternal Redemption for sinners and that according to the Will of God and his Father Give him a plain downright Narrative of the Gospel Salvation wrought out by the Son of God tell him the History and Mystery of the Gospel plainly it may be the Holy Ghost will work faith thereby as he did in those first fruits of the Gentiles Acts 10.44 If he ask what warrant he hath to believe on Jesus Christ Tell him that he hath utter indispensible Necessity for it for without believing on him he must perish eternally That he hath God's gracious Offer of Christ and all his Redemption with a promise that upon accepting the Offer by Faith Christ and Salvation with Him is his That he hath God's express commandment 1 John 3.23 to believe on Christ's Name and that he should make conscience of obeying it as well as any command in the Moral Law Tell him of Christs ability and good-will to save that no man was ever rejected by him that cast himself upon him that desperate cases are the glorious Triumphs of his Art of saving Tell him that there is no midst between Faith and Vnbelief that there is no excuse for neglecting the one and continuing in the the other That believing on the Lord Jesus for salvation is more pleasing to God that all obedience to his Law and that unbelief is the most provoking to God and the most damning to man of all sins Against the greatness of his sins the Curse of the Law and the severity of God as Judge there is no relief to be held forth to him but the free and boundless Grace of God in the Merit of Christ's Satisfaction by the sacrifice of himself If he should say What is it to believe on Jesus Christ As to this I find no such question in the Word but that all did some way understand the notion of it The Jews that did not believe on him John 6 28 29 30. the Chief Priests and Pharisees John 7 48 the blind Men John 9.35 When Christ asked him Believest thou on the Son of God He answered Who is he Lord that I may believe on him Immediately when Christ had told him ver 37. he saith not what is it to believe on him but Lord I believe and worshipped him and so both profess'd and acted Faith in him So the Father of the Lunatick Mark 9.23 24. The Eunuch Act 8.37 They all both Christ's Enemies and his Disciples knew that Faith in him was a believing that the Man Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God the Messiah and Saviour of the World so as to receive and look for Salvation in his Name Acts 4.12 This was the common Report published by Christ and his Apostles and Disciples and known by all that heard it If he yet ask What he is to believe you tell him that he is not called to believe that he is in Christ and that his Sins are pardoned and he a Justified Man but that he is to believe God's Record concerning Christ 1 John 5 10 11 12. And this Record is that God giveth that is offereth to us Eternal Life in his Son Jesus Christ And that all that with the heart believe this Report and rest their Souls on these glad Tidings shall be saved Rom. 10.9 10.11 And thus he is to believe that he may be justified Gal. 2.16 If he still say That this Believing is hard This is a good doubt but easily resolved It bespeaks a Man deeply humbled Any body may see his own Impotence to obey the Law of God fully but few find the Difficulty of believing For his Resolution ask him what it is he finds makes believing difficult to him Is it unwillingness to be justified and saved Is it unwillingness to be so saved by Jesus Christ to the praise of Gods Grace in him and to the voiding of all boasting in himself This he will surely deny Is it a Distrust of the Truth of the Gospel-Record This he dare not own Is it a Doubt of Christ's Ability or Good Will to save This is to contradict the Testimony of God in the Gospel Is it because he doubts of an Interest in Christ and his Redemption You tell him That believing on Christ makes up the Interest in him If he say that he cannot believe on Jesus Christ because of the difficulty of the acting this Faith and that a Divine Power is needful to draw it forth which he finds not You tell him that believing in Jesus Christ is no work but a resting on Jesus Christ And that this pretence is as unreasonable as that if a Man wearied with a Journey and who is not able to go one step further should argue I vm so tired that I am not able to lye down when indeed he can neither stand nor go The poor wearied sinner can never believe on Jesus Christ till he finds he can do nothing for himself and in his first believing doth always apply himself to Christ for Salvation as a man hopeless and helpless in himself And by such reasonings with him from the Gospel the Lord will as he hath often done convey faith and joy and peace by believing 3. This Doctrine of free Justification by Faith alone hath this Advantage That it suits all men's Spirits and Frame in their serious Approaches to God in Worship Men may think and talk boldly of inherent Righteousness and of its worth and value of good Works and Frames and Dispositions but when men present themselves before the Lord and have any discoveries of his Glory all things in themselves will disappear and be looked upon as nothing Zophar though the hottest Speaker of Job's Friends did yet speak rightly to him Job 11.4 5. For thou hast said My Doctrine is pure and I am clean in thine eyes But O that God would speak And so Job found it when God displaid his Glory to him and that only in the works of Creation and Providence Chap. 38 39. He then changed his note Job 40.4 5. and 42.2 6. So was it with Isaiah Chap 6.5 till pardoning Grace was imparted to him No man can stand before this Holy Lord God with any peace and Comfort unless he have God himself to stay upon His Grace and Mercy in Jesus Christ can only preserve a man from being consumed and the