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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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A TREATISE OF FAITH AND REPENTANCE By Francis Fuller M. A. Heb. 11. 6. Without Faith it is impossible to please God c. Luke 28. 47. And that Repentance and Remission of Sins should be preached in his Name among all Nations c. LONDON Printed by J. D. and are to be sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard And by Obed Smith Bookseller in Daventry in Northamptonshire 1685. TO THE Much Honoured Truly Vertuous and Religious Mrs MARY GOSLET At Marsfield in the County of Glocester MADAM FAITH and REPENTANCE are the necessary Conditions required on our part in order unto Salvation Most hope for Salvation but few that expect the benefit of the Covenant will come up to the Terms of it Some look upon Repentance as needless and think to steal out of Sin and spare the charges of it most are remiss in it Many presume they believe but few understand the Nature of Faith and fewer live the Life of it It is your Honour and will be your Happiness for ever that you live as understanding the Nature and believing the Necessity of both Indeed the Ancient and Honourable Family from which you descend by your Father and the Noble Family by your Mother give you a high Place in the Civil Body but that more Ancient and Noble Family in Heaven the General-Assembly and Church of the First-Born written there to which by so living you are allied gives you a higher Place in the Mystical Your sincere Love to Religion and unshaken Stedfastness in it give you an esteem among Wisdom's Children the Friends of Religion will be your Honour while you live and your Comfort when you die It will perfume your Dust make you live when dead and give you a possession of that never-fading Honour that God by his Promise has entail'd on all those that thus honour him I am sensible how little You are pleas'd that I tell You or the World this But since it is so much your due I should be unjust if I did not and no less should I forget those many ways by which You have oblig'd me to your Service As a present and publick tho not as a sufficient Testimony of my Gratitude this is now offered to you And that the Blessings of Heaven and Earth may descend upon the Honoured Esquire and You and that as ye are rich in this World ye may be rich in Faith that will entitle ye to a better shall be the sincere and daily desire of Your most obliged and humble Servant F. FVLLER TO THE Reader SOLOMON sayes There is no new thing under the Sun But there may be a new Discovery of old Truths or away found out to make old Truths new And if that Maxim be true they are then so when they beget new Meditation new Application and new Conversation And that this may prove so by working those things in you is the desire of Your Friend F. F. ERRATA PAge 12. line 12. for Composition read Compositum P. 16. l. 23 24. r. Your Destruction is of your selves The help of Salvation is from God P. 31. l. 1. f. appointed r. promised P. 69. in the Treatise of Self-denial line 8. r. not that we must not do them c. P. 82. l. 14. f. we r. he P. 88. l. 13. f. the r. you P. 131. l. 5. f. when he r. who These the Author hath taken notice of the rest the Reader is entreated to correct or pardon the Author having not seen all the Sheets he being remote from the Press ADVERTISEMENTS LAtely published a Second Volume of Sermons preached by the late Reverend and Learned Thomas Manton D. D. in two Parts The first containing 27 Sermons on the 25th Chapter of St. Matthew 45 on the 17th Chapter of St. John And 24 on the 6th Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans The second part containing 45 Sermons on the 8th Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans And 40 on the 5th Chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians With Alphabetical Tables to each Chapter of the principal Matters contained therein A Practical Exposition of the Lord's Prayer by the same Author Both sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard A TREATISE OF FAITH FAITH is sometimes taken for the Doctrine and sometimes for the Grace of Faith viz. the Things to be believed and the Grace by which we believe 1. The Doctrine of Faith The Faith that we must first try Fides quae creditur quam credimus 1 Tim. 6. 2. 1 John 4. 1. 1 Thess 5. 21. viz. by the Infallible Rule the Word of Faith then cordially embrace sincerely obey zealously contend for Zech. 8. 9. Acts 6. 7. Jude 3. Phil. 1. 27 2 Tim. 4. 7. Heb. 10. 23. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Gal. 6. 10. faithfully keep constantly hold fast the profession of and continue in standing fast in it by standing fast to it They that are of the Houshold of Faith must be Defenders of the Faith 2. The Grace of Faith Considered both as to the habit and Fides quâ creditur quâ credimus Eph. 3. 12 17. Gal. 2. 10. Rom 11. 20. 2 Cor. 1. 24. 5. 7. Heb. 11. 6. Ephes 2. 8. Rom. 3. 28. Acts 26. 18. exercise of it the Faith by which we believe by which Christ dwells in us and we in him by which we have access to God and communion with him by which we live stand and walk and without which we can neither please God in this World nor be sav'd in the World to come This Faith stands fast in all true 1 Pet. 1. 5. Believers God keeps that and that keeps them 1. Faith is necessary in order unto our Justification There was never but two ways to Life viz. That of the Old Covenant and this of the New that by Works and this by Faith and both as the Condition not as the Cause of Life By the first viz. by the Deeds of Rom. 8. 3. the Law by reason of its weakness through the Flesh we cannot have Life for we must keep the Law before we can have Life from it and satisfy it before we can be justified by it neither of which are we able to do for the Obedience must be perfect and the Satisfaction infinite By the second viz. By Faith we may have Life not by Works without Faith nor by Faith without Works not by Works lest any should boast but by Faith that God may be glorified by Faith that it may be by Grace and by Grace that it may be Ephes 1. 4. Gal. 4. 4. of Glory to God who chose Christ before Time and in the fulness of Time sent him into the World with full Authority and Ability to justify the Ungodly viz. both Jew and Gentile that were under Sin and to give Life to them that as dead in Sin needed Life and could not give Life to themselves Christ came not of himself on this Errand but as