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A33724	The incomprehensibleness of imputed righteousness, for justification, by humane reason, till enlightned by the spirit of God preached in two sermons at the Merchants-Lecture in Broadstreet / by Thomas Cole.	Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697.	1692 (1692)	Wing C5031; ESTC R18740	16,799	72

the man is of another mind now he doth immediately fall in with his own Faith What is the reason that carnal men do oppose the Gospel 'T is because they don't believe it when they do the case is altered they are of the same mind with Christ can set to their seal That his Word is true and that every man is a lyar who says otherwise When we know experimentally what it is to believe in Christ with all our hearts we shall be fully satisfied in the Doctrine of Faith how strange soever it seemed to us before Let us not go about to prove the fundamental Points of the Gospel by Principles of Human Reason Faith fetches all from the Word whether there be reason or no reason for it Faith will believe it relying with a holy security of mind upon God's Word let what will be against it in Reason Nature or common experience and observation of all mankind so did Abraham and Sarah Faith is a great Mystery 1 Tim. 3. 9. above all human wisdom by the light of reason we cannot know Christ till he give us an understanding 1 Joh. 5. 20. Faith is much opposed by the Devil the world and our own hearts but we resist all in Faith when we continue to believe holding fast our confidence notwithstanding all objections to the contrary This is our Victory even our Faith that it stands its ground still nay when objections come up nearer to us get into the Conscience to the great amazement of the soul yet Faith well acted overcomes all Terrors of Conscience and says triumphantly The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid Psal. 27. 1. Rom. 8. 38 39. Hope grounded upon Faith is a sure anchor of the soul Heb. 6. 19. Col. 1. 4 5. Faith is all the evidence we have for our Salvation we stand by Faith 2 Cor. 1. 24. We hold by no other tenure 'T is hard for Believers themselves to act Faith because of that mixture of Unbelief that is in them and therefore it must needs be much harder for Unbelievers to receive their first Faith God by his Almighty Power lets it into the heart and keeps it there Faith is not such a comprehending knowledge as we have of those things that are subject to man's understanding it is above that neither do we ever attain to it till we are persuaded of that which we cannot by reason conceive or understand because it passeth knowledge Eph. 3. 18. Calvin shewing the Inst. l. 3. c. 2. Sect. 14. difference between Reason and Faith expresses it thus Persuasum habet quod non capit i. e. the mind of a man is by Faith persuaded of the truth of that which by Reason it cannot conceive or comprehend and Calvin was no Enthusiast The knowledge of Faith standeth rather in certainty than in any clear natural logical demonstration of the thing it self Faith is more than knowledge i. e. more sure and certain things that are not made evident by their causes yet are made sure and certain by Faith which begets confidence Eph. 3. 12. This certainty doth not always keep us from doubting but rather supports us under it We are flesh as well as spirit Faith may be shaken by Temptations but it always opposes them and at last overcomes them Thus it is when the work of Faith is fulfilled with power 2 Thes. 1. 11. when the Truths of the Gospel which we hear and are enlightned in the knowledg of are sealed by the Spirit to our hearts Eph. 1. 13. Faith comes by hearing we must hear what we are to believe before we can believe it and besides hearing there must be an inward conception of the meaning of those words we take in the sense of them and then the sealing of the Spirit follows setling and confirming us in the belief of those Truths We must make use of Reason to find out what is revealed in Scripture but 't is Faith only that assures us of the truth of that When we are satisfied that God hath so said in Scripture let us then yield the Obedience of Faith without any further disquisition or reasoning about the nature of the things themselves The Fundamental Principles of Christian Religion as they are plainly laid down in the Scripture will admit of no dispute they are peremptory Conclusions proved by the express word of God not by any Principles of Reason here is nothing to be denied nothing to be distinguished upon we must take them as they are laid down in the Word yielding the obedience of Faith to Divine Testimony I grant we are to explain obscure figurative metaphorical Texts according to the Analogy of Faith and according to the letter of plainer Scriptures Object There seems to be a contradiction in some Scriptures as between Paul and Iames. Answ. There may seem to be a Contradiction but no man who professeth himself to be a Christian can say there is for this would overthrow the Authority of the whole Bible we must not raise a Civil War in the Scriptures setting one Text against another I don't believe that Iames contradicts Paul or Paul Iames there is a sense in which they do agree though we may not presently find it out let us not rashly cry out a Contradiction but consider how to reconcile these two Scriptures to make out the truth of both that Abram was not justified by Works in Paul's sense and Abram was justified by Works in Iames's sense that was and was not is not circa idem Paul speaks of one thing and Iames of another therefore no Contradiction were they two to speak together they would agree and justify one another's words 'T is a safe rule never to interpret Scripture into a contradiction to it self while we think the Scripture contradicts it self we shall be under a temptation to make it good by all the Sophistry imaginable we are not in a capacity to reconcile the Scripture to it self while we suppose a Contradiction possible this is to blaspheme the Word of God contradicting ends in blaspheming Acts 13. 45. They are hard put to it to maintain their own Opinions who can do it no otherwise than by setting the Scripture at variance with it self to make good their Notions we may differ in our Interpretation but let us not so much as suppose that the Scripture can differ from it self but humbly wait upon God till we can better reconcile one Text with another we shall find that in so doing Gospel Truths will open themselves to our Faith more and more we shall by degrees come to that unity of Faith and knowledge spoken of Eph. 4. 13. Faith seems unreasonable to all men 'till it be acted then it goes forth in its own light carries its own Evidence along with it 't is persuaded of the truth of the Word and such a present persuasion admits of no contrary impression if any