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A94345	The rest of faith: that is, soules fixed and established in God by believing on him through the Lord Jesus Christ. With the grounds of this faith from sanctified reason, the benefits of faith, and the evils of unbeliefe. / Proved by Gods Word, and presented to open view, by Coll. Robert Tichborne.	Tichborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1682.	1649 (1649)	Wing T1151; Thomason E544_2; ESTC R203790	133,030	166

God his Word is a Law where hee blesseth none can hinder blessing all things are at his command they were so in their first being and they have their being to be what he will have them there is nothing hard or impossible with God so our Saviour telleth his Disciples in the 19. Matthew 26. But Jesus beheld them and said unto them Mat. 19.26 with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible It is a full Scripture to what I bring it the omnipotency of God al things are possible to him it is not possible that any thing should be impossible to the almighty omnipotent God When the Angell in the 1. Luke 36. Luke 1.36 37. brings tydings to the Virgin Mary of her cozen Elizabeth being with Childe in her old age and that it was then the sixth moneth with her giveth this for the reason in the 3● verse For with God nothing shall be impossible That is to say God is Omnipotent Almighty nothing can be hard to him he doth what he will doe nothing is impossible to him nor can any thing hinder what hee will have done In the 11. Numbers 21. Num. 11.21 23. Moses questions with God about making good his word to give flesh to all the people the footmen amongst them being six hundred thousand in the 23. verse God answere Moses And the Lord said unto Moses is the Lords hand waxed short As if the Lord had said this I have spoken seemes impossible to thee but I will doe it my selfe I will make it good and I am the Almighty omnipotent God thinke you that my hand waxeth short no it is an omnipotent almighty hand for I am such a God can the Lords hand waxe short can alsufficiency almightinesse and omnipotency be lessened no it cannot and the Apostle Paul blesseth God upon this very consideration in the 3. Ephes Ephe. 3.20 21. 20. Now unto him that is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all that we can aske or thinke unto him be glory 21. verse that is the Apostle glories in God as an an omnipotent God hee is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all that we can aske or thinke the vastnesse of our thoughts or wants are too short to measure out the omnipotency of God he is exceedingly more then wee can aske want or thinke for he is Almighty to him be glory whom is thus glorious almighty alsufficient and omnipotent God this is the glory of God for God is onely this and none but God This all this and infinitely more then this is God in himselfe and such souls as be established by beleeving in God as their God doe beleeve God to be this in himselfe But I shall mention some few Attributes more of God in which he makes himselfe more visably knowne to his people As first God is a God of free grace we may call our God the gracious God or the God of mercy and grace wee may safely looke upon God thus for God lookes upon us in his free grace witnesse his Covenant of free grace Jer. 31.31 so forward God doth there ingage himselfe to put his Law in our inward parts and to write it in the bearts of his people that hee will be our God and that wee shall be his people that his people shall all know him from the least to the greatest of them that he will forgive all our iniquity and remember our sinne no more God in this Covenant doth clearely speake himselfe to be a God of free grace for the Covenant is all grace it is pardoning and purging grace justifying and sanctifying grace and as it is all grace so it in all God for God onely ingageth himselfe and this makes it to be all free grace As God is gracious in his Covenant that it is a Covenant of free grace so he is in his workes to his people they are all workes of grace and he is a God of free grace in all As in his first worke of choosing and electing his people 1. Ephes beginning Ephes beginning Chosen and predestinated us in Christ unto the adoption of children according to the good pleasure of his will To the praise of the glory of his grace God is free hee chooseth according to his owne will and that any are chosen and predestinated in Christ it is the glorious workings of his free grace he chooseth according to his owne good pleasure and to the glory of his grace God is ingaged to none he is free in his choice nay all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and therefore wh●● ever God chooseth he taketh into grace for it is free grace tha● chooseth it is onely of grace saith the Apostle that I am what I am as I am an electe vessell that is of grace God hath chosen 〈◊〉 in Christ to the glory of his grace so that God in his electing worke is a God of free grace Secondly in his worke of Salvation he is altogether 2 God of free grace 2. Ephes 4 5. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith bee loved us even when we were dead in sinnes hath quickned us together with Christ by grace ye are saved The Apostle here telleth us positively that salvation is the worke of grace I and proveth it for sayes he God who is rich in mercy loved 〈◊〉 even when wee were dead in sinnes and hath quickened us together with Christ so that it must needs be by grace that we are saved i● can be nothing but free grace in a holy God that can love soules dead in sinne and the salvation and quickening of such soules in Christ must needes be the work of his rich love and free grace so in the 8. verse For by grace are ye saved through faith though faith be the hand to receive the salvation of God yet it is free gr●● in God that giveth this salvation free grace giveth both salvation and the hand to receive it withall all the workes of God to poore sinners is the workings of his free grace the whole work of Salvation and redemption in God must needs be the workings of his grace both by reason of the subject and the time he saves sinners the worst of sinners and then even when we are dead in sinnes and trespasses Ephes 2.1 This rich love of God breakes forth to us even when we lye in our blood and no eye to pitty us what but free grace would choose such a subject to pitch eternall unchangable love upon and such a time when no eye b●sides could so much as pitty the reason is plaine none hath an eye of free grace but God and no other eye besides that could pitty and pardon poore sinners when they lye in their blood in their filth and pollution of sinne now for soules to bee justified and acquitted of all polution in the eyes of a holy pure God what can this be but free grace Rom.

God doe prove him to be the faithfull God for unfaithfulnesse and God are inconfistant they can no more be together then light and darknesse in truth there is no comparison to be made of the vastnesse of their disagreement God and truth are one for God is the God of truth hee is a faithfull God There is exceedingly more of the glorious Attributes of God which would abundantly take up the Meditation of a spiritual soul but I intended only a short touch of some of them which might leade to and carry on the designe I drive at which is the establishment of soules by beleeving in God in this God assisting you may have some small helpe to the understanding of what God is in himselfe the improvement of it for establishment I intend in the conclusion this for the opening part of it shall bee all to the first of the three things I proposed in the beginning of the Booke namely To beleeve in God in what hee is in himselfe For the other two To beleeve in what God doth and in what God saith as the word and workes of God wraps up the salvation of his people in them I shall here put them both together under this consideration Namely a briefe collection with its proofes of the whole designe and worke of God in the salvation of his people And it is this To manifest the glory of his free-grace in the full redemption of his people through Christ and in their receiving and applying it to themselves by believing First The great designe of God in his saving worke to his people is to glorifie or to manifest and declare the glory of his owne eternall originall free-grace and rich love The free-grace and rich love of God is God himselfe that God which is an incomprehensible and inexpressible Essence the true and perfect God who is first without all cause of being an immutable God and of infinite great Majesty an Eternall Omnipotent and Almighty God This is the God of Free-grace now the designe of this God in the salvation of sinners which is the worst and most miserablest piece of the whole creation in it selfe to all eternity is to glorifie or to manifest the glory of his owne free-grace For this take the testimony of the holy Ghost by the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.23 That hee might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mereie The holy Ghost in the former part of that Chapter pleadeth the soveraignty of God not any piece of clay could finde fault with the Potter what ever hee made it nor any creature with God Now in this verse hee telleth us if any be made vessels of honour and heires of glory it is that God might make knowne the riches of his glory it s his mercy and free-grace As if the holy Ghost had said God accounts of his grace and mercy to be the riches and excellency of his glory Now to make it knowne that this is his great designe God silleth heaven and earth with this his glory the redeemed in Heaven and the redeemed in Earth shall be one in Heaven at last and therein ages to come even to all eternity be swallowed up into the exceeding riches and glory of his grace Ephes 2.7 And the holy Ghost in this and the verse before it telleth us that is Gods end and designe in raising us up together and making us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus That in the Ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus If wee observe this Scripture it holds forth this that all the kindnesse wee receive from God it is his grace in Christ and Gods designe in the manifesting of this his free-grace in Christ is to shew forth the exceeding riches and glory of it the whole worke of salvation will cleare up this truth for if we consider all the subjects of salvation we shall finde no object for any thing of God but his free grace and rich love the pollution of faine man in his naturall condition could not be an object of preservation to the holy just and pure eyes of an omnipotent God nothing but free-grace and rich love in God could looke the lookes of life to souls dead in sinnes and trespasses And if thus then it plainely appeares that Gods great design in the salvation of sinners is namely to glorifie or to manifest the glory of his owne eternall rich love and free-grace God will have soules live by his grace that hee might manifest the life and glory of his grace that grace which giveth life appeares in the life it giveth so that every saved soule is a monument of the riches and glory of the love and grace of God and the wise God layde his designe sure when hee made choise of the salvation of sinners to manifest the glory of his free-grace by In the next place I shall hold forth how God doth accomplish this great end and design of his Namely by making the whole frame and worke of salvation to flow from and to depend upon his owne free-grace so as there is nothing in the whole worke of salvation from first to last but the free-grace of God Ephes 2.5.8 Even when we were dead in sinnes bath quickened us together with Christ. By grace are yee saved The time speaks grace when dead in sinnes this is a season only for grace and that the grace of God too appearing when not only in sinne but dead in sin past all recovery as from selfe if doing could prevaile yet here is no life to doe withall this is onely a time for a living love in God to act free-grace in If ever salvation comes to soules dead in sinne it must be by grace the grace of God saves of it selfe without any cause out of it selfe and this is the true salvation of soules dead in sin by grace yee are saved to be saved by grace that is to be saved in the salvation of God the whole worke to be of his free-grace not any tittle of it of our salves Rom. 3.23 24. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Being justified freely by his grace Marke it there is all selfe under sin but saved justified and acquitted soules from sin are the fruits of Gods free-grace though selfe come short of the glory of God yet free-grace makes perfection that justifies this is the salvation of God to justifie freely by his grace Rom. 5.21 That as sinne hath reigned unto death even so might grace reigne through righteousnesse unto eternall life by Jesus Christ Here sinne and selfe hath its reign but it is to death but all the parts of salvation is the work of Gods free-grace grace reignes through righteousnesse in Jesus Christ The righteousnesse of Christ to saved soules or Christ made righteousness to such souls what is it but the reign of Gods free-grace that is grace is supreame the grace

is all in the whole worke of salvation this truth will be made more cleare in proving the parts of this great worke the salvation of GODS free-grace But now consider that God layes this worke the salvation of his free-grace sure in the full satisfaction of his owne divine justice that so the saved of his grace might stand spotlesse before him to all eternity And herein is the mistery of salvation that Gods justice is fully satisfied and yet that his grace in saving his people should be perfectly free but both these doth plainly appeare in the salvation of God to his people the work of his free grace Now the way of grace in God to satisfie Divine justice to the full and yet to keepe it selfe entire free grace to all that are saved is this Namely to chuse out appoint and to send Christ in the flesh God-man to satisfie the Divine justice of God for man in whom the wisedome of God giveth full satisfaction to his owne Justice and perfect salvation to his people all of free grace In this glorious mistery free grace in God is the fountaine full satisfaction to Divine Justice the way but perfect salvation and rdemption to all his elect body in Christ the end I shall now come more particularly to the parts of this great worke of God the salvation of his owne free grace And first of Gods electing grace That it is free grace in God which elects to salvation that I shall first prove by the subjects of Gods salvation which is fallen sinners Ephes 2.1 Dead in trespasses and sinnes A lump of finners dead in trespasses and sinnes hath God to choose out as subjects for his love vessels of honour and heirs of glory If grace in God make not the choise surely the whole lump of fallen sinners would be left to remaine dead in sinnes and trespasses but the Apostle in Rom. 9.18 23. telleth us that God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy That is God is full of mercy but he is free in it his mercy lyes in his owne will he chooseth his own vessels of mercy That he might make knowne the riches of his owne glory He chooseth where he pleaseth that it might appeare he chooseth according to his owne will and pleasure that is that all his mercy and grace is free and that the first worke or part of the worke of salvation his Election is of and from his owne free grace So Ephes 1.4 5. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him Having predestinated us unto the adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himselfe according to the good pleasure of his will That is God chooseth from all eternity such as he wil make his children and heirs of glory by Christ and this hee doth according to the good pleasure of his own will all fell alike in the first Adam nothing in one more then in another to move God to love for all were dead in sinnes but the whole work in God is the worke of his grace it is all begun and finished according to the good pleasure of his owne will all is the worke of his free grace But secondly whom God thus chooseth by his grace he chooseth in Christ Ephes 1.4 According as hee hath choosen us in him that is in Christ so that all along grace is free in God and the whole worke of salvation only of his free grace Rom. 5.15 What ever is in Christ is the gift of grace so that Christ being the way by which God workes satisfaction to his own justice and salvation to his people it is all of grace the reign of life in Saints by Christ is the reigne of grace in God to Saints through Christ vers 17. Shall reigne in life by one Christ God in Christ doth reigne over soules in righteousnesse as the God of life and salvation it is God in Christ a God of free grace But in the carrying on this worke of Gods grace in the salvation of his people through Christ it is needfull that Christ take flesh according to that promise in Gen. 3.15 The seede of the woman shall bruise the head of the Serpent And this is accomplished in the fulnesse of Gods time Isa 9.6 For unto us a childe is born unto us a sonne is given The childe which is borne is the sonne which is given Christ in the flesh the sonne of God is the gift of his free grace this child Jesus is the gift of Gods grace 〈◊〉 Covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles To open the blinde eyes to bring the prisoners from the prison and them that fit in darknesse out of the prison-house Isa 42.6 7. So that as grace giveth him so his worke in the flesh is that worke of grace in all the parts of it Thus farre we have Saints in Christ and Christ in the flesh and the free grace of God in all This which followeth will appeare to be as purely grace in God as what hath gone before though now God comes to have actuall and full satisfaction to his justice Now the elect are in Christ and Christ for us in the flesh now the holy law and Divine Justice of God comes for fulfilling and satisfaction But to whom why to Christ so that when justice is fully satisfied yet that the whole of salvation might be a work of Gods free-grace Quest But why should Justice come to Christ for satisfaction had he sinned Answ I answer no but in the great designe of Gods grace to redeeme his people in Christ Christ was willingly made sinne for us and tooke our nature that hee might stand before Gods Justice in our roome as the sinner The holy Ghost cleares this truth in that 2 Cor. 5. last For hee hath made him to be sinne for us who knew no sinne The verse before cleares up this hee in the Text to be meant of God Be yee reconciled to God for hee hath made him sinne and this him in the Text must needes be meant of Christ for it is said of this him that he knew no sinne that is he had no sin of his owne he was that spotlesse lamb without sinne so was never any in flesh since the fall from innocency but Christ so that the Scripture is plaine That God made Christ is be sinne for his elect body that is not to be guilty of any finne in himselfe but to be the surety the debtor and paymaster to the justice of God for all the sins past present to come of all his elect body so that divine justice goes only to Christ for satisfaction and in Christ divine justice hath full satisfaction so that justice and grace in God are both pure in the salvation of sinners through Christ that is thus made sin for us Here wee have Christ made both sinne and flesh by God and now in the flesh wee shall sinde

Christ making full satisfaction to the justice of God for all those whom he is made sinne for as Christ came in the flesh to take up the debt of sinne for his people and to lye under the wages of sinne which is death so in the flesh and in his death hee giveth such full satisfaction to Almighty God that God doth acknowledge himselfe fully pleased in the travell of his soule Isa 53.11 Hee shall see of the travell of his soule and shall be satisfied That is God doth behold that satisfaction which Christ hath made to his justice for the sinnes of his people and in it doth acknowledge himselfe fully satisfied and for ever well pleased with his Elect in him that whole Chapter is a proving of Christ in the flesh being made by God an offering for sinne verse 10. to be wounded for the transgression of his people and bruised for our iniquities having the chastisement of our peace put upon him so that by his stripes we are healed it having pleased the Lord to lay on him the iniquities of us all 5 6. verses So that here is not onely Christ in the flesh but Christ made sinne for his people that is hath all the iniquities of his people layd on him by God with all the wounds bruises and chastisements due to them that is all the punishment due to sinne from Gods justice and this Christ undergoeth to the utmost so that by his stripes we are heoled that is by his suffering and satisfaction his Elect are in the justice of God wholy acquitted and discharged for God chose Christ to fatisfie his justice for sinne and having laide the debt with all the weight of it upon him and Christ having discharged this debt to the full Gods justice cannot but discharge it where ever it was due otherwise as one Text speaks Christ had dyed in vaine and the designe of Gods free grace to poore sioners could never be accomplished So the Apostle in the 3. Gal. 13. telleth us that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Christ as our suerty and publique Redeemer tooke sinne with all its weight and curse upon himselfe and what he hath taken from us he hath fully delivered us from so that in his satisfaction he doth fully acquit his elect body the first debtor from the whole debt and danger of sin either in curse or punishment And the Apostle Paul argueth out his tryumph in the 8. Rom. latter end upon this very consideration Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect it is God that justifieth who is bee that condemneth it is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen againe As if the Apostle had saide God doth justifie his elect body as he is a just God For Christ hath dyed and is risen againe That is Christ is risen as the satisfier of Gods justice in his death for had not Christs death satisfied Gods justice when as the sinnes curse and punishment of sinne for all his Elect body was layd on him he could never have risen again but now his is risen and risen as the justifier of his people and the satisfier of Gods justice Now if any shall charge the Elect of God with what Christ hath borne and satisfied for them Even the justice of God or the just God will acquit them and if God acquit who can condemne and therefore hee glorieth So the same Apostle in the 4. Rom. 25 speaking of Christ as being risen from the dead sayes thus Who was delivered for our offences and was raised againe for our justification That is it was the sinnes of his Elect that crucifyed him and it is the justification of his Elect for whom he dyed that he is risen and as nothing could have crucified him but our sins so now nothing can condemne those for whom he dyed he being risen his resurrection pleades to all justice satisfaction in his death And Christ was therefore delivered up to death for our offences that in his resurrection we might be justified from all offences Gods great aime and designe of grace Run thorough the former to the latter of these Rom. 10.4 the holy Ghost telleth us there That Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth As if he had said The beleeving soule shall finde that Christ hath fulfilled and doth fully keepe the whole Law for him and so is an end to it for righteousnesse that is Christ is now the soules righteousnesse not the Law the Law is kept and fulfilled by Christ for a beleever so that it cannot charge any soule in Christ to condemnation but the righteousnesse and justification of the soule in the sight of God is Christ not the Law if any soule could keepe the whole Law in it selfe the Law might have been for righteousnesse to that soule but all having sinned and come short now the Law is an accuser not a justifier but Christ for his people hee fully satisfies and keepes the Law so that Christ is the righteousnesse of his people and an end to the Law for righteousnesse This is a faithfull saying 1 Th● X. 15 and worthy of all acceptation that Christ came into the World to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 It was the end of Gods giving Christ and of Christ comming to save sinners from sinne Law death Hell and what ever would destroy them and this end is effected for Christ did not onely dye but is risen did not onely take sin but hath satisfyed for sinne and all this is the worke of grace which appeares in this it is the worke of God in Christ the Apostle Paul doth acknowledge and confirme this truth in Rom. 3.24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ The Apostle here sayes it is redemption through Christ but that doth not hinder our being justified by free grace in God though God workes through Christ yet it is all the worke of his free grace it is through Christ and Christ is through grace there is not any tittle of redemption or justification through selfe it is all through Christ and by grace which is no more but grace working through Christ the great gift of Gods free grace what ever God doth in Christ can no wayes deminish his free grace for Christ is the Mediator or middle person betweene God and Man in whom God magnifies his grace to Man and giveth to his people the riches and greatnesse of his love wherewith he loveth them through him This indeed doth manifest the wisedome and justice of God to redeeme his people through Christ but it no wayes lesseneth the freenesse of his grace nay it makes it more glorious grace for that justice is fully satisfied makes mercy the greater mercy and the justified is nothing in himselfe all this while but a sinner now that God should make Christ his way to satisfie his Divine justice by and to

save sinners this must needes magnifie the grace of God because the saved and the justified are nothing in the worke themselves onely sinners and the worst of sinners saved onely of grace by grace it is grace in God and grace in Christ the grace of God through Christ that makes such as are dead in sins to be quickned together with Christ and from this the holy Ghost telleth us that by grace wee are saved Ephes 2.5 Christ came from Heaven to doe his Fathers will that was to save all which his Father had given him not to loose any but to raise them up at the last day John 6.38 39. God chooseth Christ a body John 6.38 39 of which h● maketh him head and Saviour and send him into the World that he might rederme his body by satisfying justice so that he might save the whole and raise them up at the last day at his redeemed body and all this the worke of Gods free grace through Christ for Christ doth acknowledge that his worke of redemption was his Fathers will and his word was to perfect the designe of his Fathers grace that all God had given him might be redeemed through him and justified by his Fathers grace in the death of Christ God commendeth his love and grace to ●e Rom. 5.8 But God commendeth his love to us in that whilst wee were sinners Christ dyed for us Marke it the satisfaction that Christ gave to the justice of God for sinners was so farre from being any diminution to Gods grace that it is a commendation of it or an exaltation and glory of it for it exceedingly commends the glory of Gods love and grace that Christ should dye because we were sinners there lyes the emminency of Gods love it is Christ the gift of his grace dying for sinners this makes all the worke grace grace in God sends Christ to dye for sinners whom otherwise must dye eternally in sinne can there bee any thing but grace in this in the Apostles account Christs dying for us when when we were sinners doth much demonstrate the love and grace of God and surely so it doth Thus doth God save his people by grace and satisfie his justice in Christ Now Christ having satisfied his Fathers justice fulfilled and kept the Law to the utmost for all his elect body he bringeth them to the throne of his fathers justice as well as the throne of his grace and there God as a just God doth justifie head and members Col. 2.9 10. For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the God-head bodily And yet are compleate in him As if God should say Christ hath satisfied my justice as God Man and though my justice were the justice of a God yet him in whom the fulnesse of the God head dwelleth bodily hath fully satisfied it and all his members are compleate in him I have received full satisfaction for them in him and in him doe sully acquit and discharge them of all guilt and unrighteousnesse before me to all eternity for yee are compleate in him That i● compleate in his compleatnesse For he was made sinne for you which knew no sinne 2 Cor. 5. last that you might be made the righteousnesse of God in him Marke it the end of Christ being made sinne was that in him his elect body might bee made the righteousnesse of God that is that Christ might bee our righteousnesse as the gift of God so that Christ being our righteousnesse wee might bee righteous in the righteousnesse of God and so compleate in him namely Christ as Christ is the righteousnesse of God to his people So are they all compleate in him and in this the righteousnesse of God Saints are justified at the throne of Gods justice and taken up into his bosome of grace for in union with Christ there can be no condemnation Rom. 8. Thus doth free grace in God accomplish and finish its worke of salvation for all his elect through Christ God doth this worke in Christ that it might be all free grace and that he might take off all boasting in the creature by the Law of faith Rom. 3.27 whom hee chooseth from all eternity to be heires of glory hee chooseth them in Christ Ephes 1.4 whom he calleth out of nature into his grace he calleth in Christ Rom. 8. latter end Such as he redeemeth he redeemeth through Christ and makes him to bee redemption to them 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 3.24 Them which God justifies and makes righteous he justifieth and maketh righteous in Christ Rom. 4.25 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 10.3 4. Rom. 4.25 Gal. 5.4 So Christ he is made sanctification to his people 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 1 Cor. 1.30 Rom. 8.10 8.10 And when Saints are taken up into their fulnesse of glory then they reape the fulnesse of their union with Christ John 17. latter end John 14.19 Rom. 8.17 So that this whole salvation is the worke and gift of Gods free grace wrought in Christ Now that it might be free grace in God and onely free grace which begins carries on and perfects this worke of Salvation in all the parts and degrees of it this is the will of God That the hand which taketh receiveth applyeth and oppropriateth thi● free gift of Gods grace to the soules of his Elect body should bee the hand fo saith so that as it reignes in the soules of beleevers Rom. 3 24 37. 1 John 3.23 it might appeare to be of grace and not of workes Rom. 3. ● 〈◊〉 27. 1 John 3.23 And this is his Commandement that 〈◊〉 should beleeve on the name of his Sonne Jesus Christ The will of God appeares in his Commandement and that is to beleeve in the name of his Sonne Jesus Christ to beleeve in Jesus as a Saviour and a Redeemer to save and redeeme his people from their sins Matthew 1.21 And she shall bring forth a Sonne and thou shalt call his name Jesus for hee shall save his people from their sinnes This is to beleeve in the name of Jesus to beleeve in Jesus as the Saviour of his people from their sinnes this is the will and commandement of God in this sense in Scripture Rom. 3.1 we are often said to be justified by faith Rom. 5.1 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ That is not by faith as a meritorious grace to merit justification for then it were of works which would destroy the nature of faith and the designe of Gods free grace but by faith as an appropriating and applying hand to lay hold on the salvation of Gods free grace through Christ in beleeving of Gods Word and worke of Salvation by his free grace through Christ so as to cast the salvation of our eternall soules Rom. 5.1 upon Gods free grace in the satisfaction and redemption of Christ therefore Justified by faith wee have 〈◊〉 with God through our Lord Jesus Christ That is by faith laying hold