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A40632 A treatise of faith and repentance by Francis Fuller ... Fuller, Francis, 1637?-1701. 1685 (1685) Wing F2386; ESTC R7233 53,021 156

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sent by the Father he Joh. 12. 44 49. did not step in as a private Person nor of himself take this Office upon him but came as a publick Person sent forth from God his Righteous Servant a Isa 53. 11. Son by Nature a Servant by Office to justify many God and Christ the Father and Son were one in this Work and therefore as no Sin dishonours God more than Unbelief a Sin that of all he will the least bear with because it dishonours the Father by dishonouring the Son not only as he is of one Nature with the Father but as one set apart by the Father for this Work so no Grace honours God more than Faith nor is there any that he so highly esteems of in that it gives him the Glory of all those Attributes viz. the Depth of his Wisdom the Omnipotency of his Power the Exactness of his Justice the Beauty of his Holiness and Greatness of his Love that so eminently appear'd in this Work and gives Honour to him by receiving Christ as sent to accomplish it Faith honours God as it approves of all that he has done in this great Work and God honours Faith as set apart by him to receive the benefit by it by receiving Christ the Author of John 1. 12. it Upon this account it is that Faith is a Grace of such singular worth and excellency as a Quality it has no more worth in it than any other Grace in some respects less but as design'd to so Manus mendicans noble an Office as that of justifying Sinners before God which no Grace else is it has and is preferr'd before all it being as necessary to it necessitate medii as Christ himself he as a Mediator and Faith as a Means of applying him for we are not justified before we believe nor by any thing but by believing Satisfaction made on Christ's part is nothing without Application made on ours Of the Nature of Faith Faith Is not a bare Assent it is more than that Is not Assurance it is less than that It is not a bare Assent Christ appears in his Royalty in the Gospel viz. as the only and All-sufficient Saviour the Persons are described who are interested in him and the Terms specified upon which they are viz. not Devils but Men nor all Men but Believers only A knowledg of and an assent to this Declaration as incomparably good and undoubtedly true is necessary but not enough for as there is no Faith where there is no Assent so there is no Justifying Faith where there is no more For Assent Is a Faith in common with all those kinds of Faith that are not saving it may consist with Despair and necessarily attends it and with the Sin against the Holy Ghost for as it is commonly understood it cannot be committed without it it may be found in the worst of Men it was in the stony ground in the Parable and in Simon Luke 8. 13. Acts 8. 13 23. Jam. 2. 19. Magus who was in the Gall of Bitterness it may be found in Devils for they believe and in Hell as well as upon Earth Assent is necessary and antecedent to justifying Faith and is contain'd in it as the Vegetive and Sensitive Soul is in the Reasonable but it is not that for that is but General Faith but this is Particular and appropriating that is in the Understanding only without any quickning Influence on the Will but this has an Operation there and is represented under the Notion Of seeking Christ Which implies diligence Psal 27. 8. in the use of Means Of coming to Christ Which implies the Mat. 11. 28. Motio est actio totius compositi Act of the whole Soul going out to him with Affections and Desires the feet of the Soul to find that in him which it has not in it self Of running to Christ Which implies Isa 55. 5. the fervor of the Motion Of receiving Christ Whereby it is entitled John 1. 12. Jus ad rem sequitur jus ad personam to all the Privileges purchased by him None can use Christ to their benefit unless they have him nor have him until they by Faith receive him It is not Assurance Faith in time may bring Assurance It does not Competere omni soli semper and often does and for a time it may not for it is seldom crown'd with Assurance until it is of some standing it many times ends in Assurance but never begins in it for it goes in Time and in Nature before it 1. In Time Faith goes first and Assurance follows ● John 5. 13. after first believing and then knowing that as the necessary Antecedent this as the Consequent for all must believe before they can know they do as they must before they can be justified by it 2. In Nature Faith is the Condition required on our part in order unto Life believe and be sav'd Faith not Assurance for if that was required then our Sins would be forgiven before we believed Reprobates would be damn'd for 2 Cor. 13. 5. Reprobation may be taken either in opposition to the Eternal Decree of Election or in opposition to Soundness and Reprobates for such as are either rejected absolutely or such as reprobate Silver as are cast off for the present Jer. 6. 30. not believing a Lie viz. that they are in a state of Life when they are not and all would be commanded to believe an Untruth viz. that they are pardoned Mark 16. 16. before they are Assurance Is properly an Act of Experience and not an Act of Faith which is a true Perswasion tho not ever a full one or an Act of the Mind only but Faith is an Act of the whole Soul it is rather God's Act than ours rather the Eminency than the Essence of Faith and relates more to its well-being than being if not then none belong to the Houshold of Faith but such as are assur'd when-as Assurance tho it many times accompanies them yet it does not constitute and make them so That Child which knows neither Father nor Mother may be as true a Child and as much of the Family as those that are come to perfect Knowledg and they as true Members of the Houshold of Faith that want Assurance as they that have it For Tho all that believe are justified yet all that are justified are not sure they are Then Faith and Doubts are inconsistent which sometimes they are not for they are not opposite to one another as Life and Death but only as Cold and Heat in remiss Degrees and may consist as Contraries in some Degree and do when those Doubts are accompanied with Shame and Sorrow attended with earnest desires after the Things doubted of with solicitous Enquiries and Endeavours to get them and with a full purpose of Heart to follow hard after God and cleave close Isa 50. 10. to him in a way of trust