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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04187	Iustifying faith, or The faith by which the just do liue A treatise, containing a description of the nature, properties and conditions of Christian faith. With a discouerie of misperswasions, breeding presumption or hypocrisie, and meanes how faith may be planted in vnbeleeuers. By Thomas Iackson B. of Diuinitie and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 4	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1615 (1615)	STC 14311; ESTC S107483	332,834	388

and liuely when wee feele a present benefit redounding to our selues from the good we do to others as if we actually perceiued the cooperatiue cōcurrence of diuine goodnesse in these workes of charity As well this loue of God as of our neighbours are though in different manner effects or properties of liuely faith or of that grace whereof faith it selfe is the principall stemme as it illuminates the minde or supreme faculty of the soule Our loue of God may well seeme to be an effect immanēt or residing in the same faculty with faith Loue to our neighbour an effect transient as hauing a distinct roote or originall whence it springs and takes it proper substance though quickned and moued to euery good worke by faith as the moone hath a distinct bodie of it owne more capable of light then others are but illuminated by the sunne The substance or body of loue to our neighbours is naturall humanity or kindnesse whose illumination perfection and guidance is from faith apprehending the goodnesse of God whom we immediately loue aboue all for himselfe as the onely Creator and preseruer of all the onely procurer of all good to all others in him and for him as our fellow creatures and ioint obiects with vs of his vnrecompensable loue 3. The same dependance on faith haue trust and confidence or that affection which in latine we call Fiducia Confidence in their language of whom we borrow the name implies a boldnesse or hopefull assurance of good successe in the businesse we goe about and naturally springs from a perswasion either of our owne or others sufficiencie of whose helpe or furtherance we may presume Thus the strong are vsually confident in matters of strength wise men or well experienced in matters to be tried by wit or worldly pollicie the wealthy in causes that may be swaied with bribery men well allied in businesses that may be carried best by multitude of friends But all these branches of confidence haue the cursed fig-trees hap Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arme and with-draweth his heart from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse and shall not see when any good commeth but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse in a salt land and not inhabited The stocke notwithstanding whence they grow being purified and seasoned by grace these lopt off and the true knowledge of God ingrafted in their steed beareth fruit vnto saluation For blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is For hee shall be as a tree that is planted by the water which spreadeth out her rootes by the water and shall not feele when the heate commeth but her lease shall be greene and shall not care for the yeare of drought neither shall cease from yeelding fruit The points towards which this naturall affection whereof all participate more or lesse must be set ere it grow vp into such confidence as spreads it selfe throughout all the waies that God hath appointed vs to walke in are the articles of Gods power and wisdome ouer all the workes of his hands and his fauour towards vs. The manner how faith doth raise it the Reader may more easily perceiue if it please him call to minde or hereafter obserue that as well in the dialect of sacred writers whether Canonicall or Apochriphall as other morall Authors or common speech there is a twofold faith One passiue or obiectiue which in English we vsually call fidelitie or faithfulnesse whereunto we may safely trust another actiue or apprehensiue by which we assent vnto the former and rely vppon it as farre as our needfull occasions shall require Of this reliance or reposall confidence is but a further degree presupposing a firmer apprehension or experience of more then ordinarie sufficiency and fauour towards vs in the party to whose trust we commit our selues or our affaires Fidelity or faith passiue he well notified in part that told vs Quando fit quod dicitur tunc est fides Faithfull hee is in his sayings that hath good ground for what he speakes or called to an account is able to make such proofe of his assertions as the nature of the businesse shall require Faithfull in his doing he is that approues the truth of his promises by performance whom wee cannot better describe then the Psalmist hath done One that walketh vprightly worketh righteousnesse and speaketh the truth in his heart or as we say one whose heart goes with his mouth and changeth not his oath or promise albeit the performance of it be to his greater hinderance then he conceiued when he made it Alwaies the better opinion we retaine of this passiue fidelity or faithfulnes the greater is our actiue faith trust or reposall in it but trust or confidence in fallible or absolute wee cannot haue in any mortall man For besides that his heart or intention is vnknowne to vs such abilities as now he hath are obnoxions to change so is his purpose and resolution Not the honestest man on earth but is mutably honest at least in respect of vs and where all other conditions be equall we trust him better whose meanes are whole and sound then one of a broken or crased estate For few there be but sore pinched with pouerty will shrinke from what they promised vpon presupposed hopes of better ability And most men perhaps out of a consciousnesse of their owne mutabilitie vpon like change of fortunes or new discouery of dangers before vnknowne seeme to grant a generall pardon or dispensation to others in like cases at the least if abilities vpon such casualties be wanting ingenuous creditors doe not expect performance of promises made howsoeuer their debtors minds were affected when they made them whence as I said confidence in such men if other conditions be equall are lesse safe yet the more we trust them vpon lesse probable meanes of abilitie or vpon externall appearances of danger or suspitions cast by others of their likelihood to breake the greater eredite and honour we doe them For as loue vnlesse it proceed from a party odious and vnlouely is vsually repaid with like affection according to the olde saying V is vt ameris ama so ipsa fides habita obligat fidem Men oft times become more trusty then otherwise they would be by the trust or credence we giue vnto them God in whom only this fidelity or faith obiectiue according to the most absolute idea or perfection of it is immutable is alwaies more fauourable to such as faithfully commend themselues and their affaires vnto this care and trust And vnto faithfull reliance and reposall on his promises wee are tied by a triple bond of faith which cannot possibly breake or vntwine once surely fastened If we fully assent to his veracitie we cannot question whether he purpose whatsoeuer he promised if to his omnipotencie we cannot doubt of his allsufficiencie to performe For