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A57581 Saving-beliefe: or, The ready and right vvay to beleeve and be saved Wherein is the * mysterie of faith laid open * I Tim. 3. 9. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the Gospel (twixt Essex and Suffolke) in Sudbury. Rogers, Timothy, 1598-1650?. 1644 (1644) Wing R1857; ESTC R219742 33,435 192

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Saving-Beliefe OR THE READY AND RIGHT VVAY to Beleeve and be Saved Wherein is the * Mysterie of Faith laid open * 1 Tim. 3.9 By Timothy Rogers Minister of the Gospel twixt Essex and Suffolke in Sudbury Mark 5.36 Be not afraid only beleeve Luke 7.50 Thy Faith hath saved thee goe in peace LONDON Printed by G. M. for Edward Brewster at the Bible on Fleet-bridge 1644. TO THE Right Worshipfull Mr JOHN EDEN OF Ballindon Hall in Essex Esquire my godly Patrone Right Worshipfull HAVING this small Treatise lying dead by me or at least asleep and being provoked to give it more roome and some breath that it might be awakened by the Presse and Printers hand to come to light I could not bethinke my selfe to make Dedication of it as the use is to any one more fitly then your selfe and that for these reasons First you have been a good Disciple in the schoole of Piety from your very non-age and education by that pious Lady your ancient Mother whom I much honour with the rest of that vertuous brood some of whom it was my lot to seale up in their sepulchres besides some of your owne Secondly you have been a constant hearer of these and other my Collations when you have been in these parts Thirdly you are my loving Patrone by whose meanes and instigation according to the desire of the Congregation I was some yeares since brought to this place Fourthly I therefore am peculiarly ingaged unto you and love not to live or dye wholly in debt I look to lay downe my tabernacle daily accept I pray this small Testimony of Gratitude I must say as Peter Act. 3.6 Silver and gold have I not but such as I have give I you a little plaine fruit of my owne grafting I therefore dedicate it unto your selfe and by you to my well-affected friends my constant conscionable and profitable hearers Never more need of Faith and living by it then in this terrible tempest the blessing of the Lord goe with it Yours faithfully obliged in the Lord Timothy Rogers The Contents of the severall Chapters contained in this Booke Saving Beliefe What it is Chap. 1. How it is called Chap. 2. How the Law workes toward it Chap. 3. How the Gospel works to bring to it Cha. 4. Questions resolved about the Gospels working of it Chap. 5. The true Grounds of it Chap. 6. Objections answered that hold backe one throughly humbled from it Chap. 7. The maine Lets to the getting of it Chap. 8. Helps for distressed souls to it Chap. 9. The seat or subject of it Chap. 10. The immediate effects following it Chap. 11. The Excellencie of it Chap. 12. The Necessitie of it Chap. 13. 14. Sorts of Professors that want it Ch. 14. Generall notes of tryall whereby to know it Chap. 15. More speciall notes whereby it may be tryed and knowne Chap. 16. The degrees of it Chap. 17. What we must doe with it when we have it Chap. 18. What we must doe when we want it and more of it desired Chap. 19. Imprimatur JA. CRANFORD August 12. 1644. SAVING-BELIEF OR The Ready and Right way to beleeve and be saved CHAP 1. What it is and the Definition of it explained THat every one must beleeve that would be saved is a truth out of question confessed by all that professe Christ but yet every kind of Beleeving is not saving Generall and common faith for the Devills beleeve Iam 2.19 and Simon Magus beleeved Acts. 8. ●3 and was baptized and yet St Peter saith he was in the gall of bitternes and bond of iniquity now then what kind of Beliefe it is that will save and that onely this Treatise shewes not therefore to meddle with historicall temporarie or miraculous faith which are not saving What is true saving Beliefe Saving beliefe The definition of it A right applying of Christ to ones selfe viz. by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our Soules wellfare by him 1 For better understanding whereof 1 I say it 's an applying of Christ for as Manna did no good unlesse it were fetcht home and fed upon nor Physick doth good without applying no more doth Christ unlesse he be applyed to the soule 2 It 's an applying to ones selfe for to apply Christ to another as when you are perswaded of such a ones Salvation by him will no more save thy soule then another bodies feeding will nourish thee or preserve thy life 3 It 's a right applying for if it be wrong it saves not Q. How may one know whether it be a right applying of Christ A. If it set an impression of the likenesse of Christ on the soule so as Christ is a Gal. 4.19 formed in it and it becomes like unto him in holynesse and true righteousnesse as a seale being rightly set and applyed to the wax leaves the right print of it selfe behind it 2 If it apply not a bare Christ but Christ with his benefits and one of them as well as another holinesse and mortification Rom. 6.4 as well as pardon of sinnes and mercy 3 If it make us let goe our hould of sinne as a full hand must first open and let goe what is in it before it can take hould of a better thing And this is the definition of true faith but I further add for Explanation by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our soules welfare by him because an hearty and unfained accepting of Christ is the true conception of faith and a true perswasion is the birth of it as shall be further shewed Chap. 5. I say also a true perswasion for in a Temporarie Hypocrite is found a particular perswasion or applying to himselfe but it 's not true Q. Is not true beleeving a resting upon Christ A. Yes for a perswasion includes a resting on him and a resting on him implyes some at least implicite perswasion CHAP. 2. How it is called and the working causes thereof SAving beliefe to difference it from that beleeving that will not save is called by peculiar names setting out the dignity of it as saith of Gods elect Tit. 1.1 the faith of Saints Rev. 13.10 the faith of Iesus Rev. 14.12 most holy faith Iude. 20. worke of faith with power 2 Thess 1.11 faith unfained 1. Tim. 1.5 Precious faith 2. Pet. 1.1 No other faith can be properly so called The working causes thereof are either principall or in strumentall the principall is God himselfe Faith of the operation of God Col. 2.12 and therefore the blessed work of Father Son and Holy Ghost Loe how goodly a thing it is as a rare peece of a famous Artist The instrumentall causes are Gods Ministers with the word preached in their mouthes Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10.17 and how shall they heare without a Preacher verse 14. for though God could work faith in men wihout this yet he will not as he could if it