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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50426	St. Paul's travailing pangs, with his legal-Galatians, or, A treatise of justification wherein these two dissertions are chiefly evinced viz. 1. That justification is not by the law, but by faith, 2. That yet men are generally prone to seek justification by the law : together with several characters assigned of a legal and evangical spirit : to which is added (by way of appendix) the manner of transferring justification from the law to faith / by Zach. Mayne ...	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1485; ESTC R4815	251,017	422

Propositions thoroughly believed are the foundation of all true Religion By faith we receive the notion of God rootedly in our fouls and then all the discoveries of God in any the effects of his wisdome power and goodness in his Works or in his Word in his Works Heb. 11.3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear Whether faith takes this Proposition That the worlds were made by the word of God out of the Scriptures or meerly by observation from the works themselves it comes all to one as to my present purpose which is this to prove that it is faith that strongly and effectually in us ownes the being of God and the works of God Again it is faith receives all the revelations of God by any messengers that he sends unto us at any time * And indeed this is the most proper notion of faith viz. an asfent to testimony Who hath BELIEVED our report saith Isaias and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed Isai 53.1 If the arm of the Lord be not revealed to men in the preaching of the word it is because they do not rightly believe the report The word preached did not profit them not being mixed with saith in the hearing of it Heb. 4.2 3. and hence it is for that faith is the proper instrument of receiving the word of God that the Saints in the New Testament are called as often by the name of BELIEVERS as by any other name Acts 5.14 1 Tim. 4.12 and the word of the Gospel is called the word of Faith Rom. 10.8 Nay faith doth not only in the first place receive God into the soul then all the discoveries of God in his Works and Word but it pitches upon all the particular objects that are there discovered in the Word and brings them particularly into the soul faith doth not only receive the doctrine of the Gospel as true in the general and from God but because Christ is there revealed it receives Christ himself and brings Christ into the soul and so Christ comes to dwell in our hearts by faith Eph. 3.17 which is indeed a figurative expression there is faith in Christ as well as faith in God the Father and there is faith in the blood of Christ c. but of these things I have spoken largely above in the last character I bring them in only here as proofs of the excellency of faith in that it brings all spiritual objects home unto the soul that so the soul may converse with them in the exercise of all its graces and virtues In one word our whole life here at a distance from God must necessarily be a life of faith We walk by faith not by sight 2 Cor. 5.7 for till we come to the beatifical Vision of God we must see him and all his glories and excellencies by faith and our treatings with God the Father and the Son must be by faith I have a long time dearly loved that Scripture 1 Pet. 1.8 Whom speaking of Christ having not seen ye love in whom though now you see him not yet believing ye rejoice with ●oy unspeakable and full of glory Faith must come into set love on work upon an unseen Christ or else none of that glorious and unspeakable joy could arise to a Christian so that by what hath been said in this first particular Faith is the root-grace in this present state of things 2 Excellency of Faith But secondly Faith is not only the first grace in order and a root-grace but it is certainly productive and efficacious in the actuating all other graces and setting them on work when once saith hath brought all these glorious objects into the soul first God and all his glorious Attributes then his Revelations and especially Christ and his Blood and realized them all unto the soul it is almost impossible but all other graces should in their several courses and respects which they have to these objects move and work regularly and intensly Love we know is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 in rational creatures it is the fulfilling of the Law perfectly even in degrees in broken creatures it is the fulfilling of the Law sincerely in its desires and endeavours Now this faith makes its great instrument to work by Faith worketh by love Gal. 5.6 and I shewed above how faith sets hope on work now these three Faith Hope and Charity are the three great graces 1 Cor. 13.13 all other graces are reducible to these three and of these three faith is the root-grace And therefore we finde often in the Scriptures that all Religion is put upon the bare assent of faith Rom. 10.9 If thou confes with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved 1 John 4.2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh is of God Not as if a meer confession or profession of Christ were saving for there are many that do profess themseves Christians that shall go to hell But according to that in the Romanes if they did believe with their heart that God had raised Christ from the dead together with the ends of his death resurrection certainly all those other things which accompany salvation or have salvation annexed to them would follow because true saith hearty unseigned faith is a working faith it works by love to the making a man a new creature and to the keeping of all the commandements of God And according to this positio● I make no doubt that place in James is to be under stood Jam. 2. where there is a supposition of a superation betwixt Faith and Works that either that place speaks onely of a false and onely pretended faith and then indeed there may be such a Faith without Works a dead and unactive Faith that is the resemblance and appearance of Faith or else ●t speaks of a true Faith and then it is onely by way of supposition that the Apostle there speaks that upon supposition any one's Faith though it were the highest and truest Faith in the World should not be accompanied by Works it would not justifie and it is very true upon that supposition Because Works are as well required as Faith not but that where-ever there is a true and lively Faith there will be Works necessarily attending it and this I believe all will readily acknowledge Mr. Baxter is so much of this opinion that Faith is an operative Grace and puts the soul where it is upon gracious actions towards God that be puts works and obedience into the desinition or description of Faith In his Aphorisms pag. 279 Thesis 70. Faith saith he in the largest sense as it comprehendeth all the condition of the New-Covenant may be thus defined It is when a sinner by the Word and

which otherwise I should be engaged to do from the fore-going discourse unto sincerity or sincere obedience which is the other part of the condition of Gospel justification I might adde as a great particular of the Exhortation to the exercise of faith that you must be sure to exercise frequent and vigorous acts upon Christ and his blood but of this I have spoken at large in the last Character To conclude therefore this use and so the whole Treatise if thou be rich in knowledge and firm in thy assent unto divine truths copious and strong in acts of affiance upon the divine power and goodness exhibited in the gracious promises of the Word and to this addest or rather makest to precede a sincerity of heart in the service of God that is in summe if thou be a great believer thou mayest not perhaps work Miracles but thou shalt be a wonderful Christian and shalt be able to do greater things than it was to do Miracles when they were in use for wicked men could work Miracles Math. 7.22 Thou shalt be eminently usefull unto the Church to thy Friends and Relations Acquaintance unto thine own soul thou shalt be fit to stand in the gap upon all occasions for others for thy self thou shalt free thy mind of all thy cares all thy businesses shall succeed thou shalt have all thy graces flourishing vigorous thou shalt by thy frequent actings of faith in prayer at last get such liberty of access to the throne of Grace such fellowship and communion with the Father and the Son as to be unto God and Christ in the quality of a Friend as Abraham was Jam. 2.23 which we know occasioned intimate communications from God to him as well as from him to God Gen. 18.17 Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do So our Saviour saith to his Disciples Henceforth I call you not servants but friends for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth John 15.15 The secret of the Lord both of his Covenant and Providence shall be with thee Psal 25.14 In a word be but much in the exercise of faith and you shall need but little more to enquire into your selves what evidences you have of the favour of God to you than one at noon-day needs evidence that the Sun shines be but much in believing and ordinarily I speak not of extraordinary dispensations ye shall have joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 this you may see at large above in the third Character pag 187. But I do not pretend here in the narrow compass of a Use to speak to all that may be said of the life of Faith either to the kindes of its acts the blessed effects of it all the cases about it motives to it or directions in it this would fill a large Treatise See Ball of the Life of Faith I shall conclude all with that of the Psalmist 37.3 Trust in the Lord and do good be large and firme in thy assent to divine truths be strong and vigorous in thy acts of Trust and Affiance and be faithfull to thy God and thou shalt dwell in the Land and verily thou shalt be fed verily thou shalt be justified verily thou shalt be saved FINIS THere being here some empty Pages I thought good to translate one place more out of Luthers Commentary upon the Galatians which I have a great esteem for I would have it referred to pag. 112. or rather to the 183. because it shews how apt even good men are to fall into a legal frame of heart it is in the 53 pag. his words are these Deinde quoque causa Justificationis lubrica est c. besides also the business of Justification is a slippery tickle thing not indeed in it self or in its own nature for in it self it is most firm and certain sed quoad nos but as to us and in our management of it That which I my self have often experienced Novi enim in quibus horis tenebrarum nonnunquam lucter for I know in what hours of darkness I sometimes struggle and wrestle I know how often or how that oftentimes I lose of a sudden the rayes and light of the Gospel and of Grace as it were in certain thick clouds novi denique quam versentur ibi in lubrico etiam exercitati qui pedem firmissime figunt in the last place I well know how that the most experienced Saints and those that have best footing stand here viz. in the business of Justification as in a slippery place and their foot is ready to slip ever now and then and they are apt to let go their hold habemus quidem cognitionem hujus causae we know indeed this matter in a doctrinal way because we can teach it to others and this is a certain sign that we understand it for none can teach others that which he knows not himself It is a sign of a knowing person as he said to be able to teach Verum eum jam in praesenti agone uti debemus Evangelio c. But when we come to practice this doctrine when we are in a strait and pressure of spirit need to use Gospel which is the word of Grace consolation and life then and there the Law the word of wrath sadness and death gets before the Gospel seiseth of us before the Gospel can come praevenit Evangelium and begins to make a tumult within us and stirs up no less terrors in the conscience than that terrible and horrible sight upon Mount Sinai did Sic ut vel unus locus comminationis in Scriptura omnes obruat obnubilat consolationes So that though but one place of threatning in the Scripture come to our minde it will over-whelm and darken all our comforts and will put all our inward parts into such a shaking and trembling adecque omnia interiora nostra concuti●t that we shall quite forget the right state of the matter of Justification we shall quite forget grace Christ and the Gospel ut plane obliviscam●r causae Justificationis Gratiae Christi Evangelii therefore as to us the business or cause of Justification is a very sl ppery tickle thing because we are slippery and unconstant in it Ides quantum ad nos attinetr es valde lubrica est quia nos lubrici sumus FINIS