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prayer, x. Ill ; spiritual reverence of God, 112; confidence in God, and a disclaiming of all sublunary confidences, ib. j taking off the heart from the world, and from carnal desires, ih.
Faintivg, of the soul is when comfort is quite gone, vii. 354 ; arises from the tediousness of present sorrows and pressures, 355 ; or from a fervent and strong desire, ih. ; either causeth great trouble and dejection of spirit, or defection and falling off from God, ib. ; considerations to preserve us from, 356.
It is a great infirmity and weakness if a christian should faint in a time of troiible, xii. 227 ; reasons why, ib. ; weariness and fainting compared, ib. ; in this weakness, if left to ourselves, we should fail but for the help of the Holy Spirit, 228 ; they who rouse themselves up and use all means are in a nearer capacity to receive this help than others, 229 ; exhortations against fainting under troubles, 230. Faith, Saving, Excellency of, ii. 140. Faith, Life of, a Treatise on the, xv. 45. JFaith, begotten in the word, exercised in prayer, i. 30.
Its nature is to appropriate and apply, i. 55.
Hope, love, and zeal, lead christians to desire Christ's second coming, i. 115 ; also their experiences, 116.
Three things in, assent, acceptance, dependence, i. 390.
Convinces us of the worth and truth of the things promised by God through Christ, ii. 141 ; what that is by which the just do live, 142 ; it looketh mainly to heaven, ib. ; the sure ground which it goeth upon is God's promise through Jesus Christ, 143 ; its nature is trust and confidence, 145 ; its immediate fruit and effect is a forsaking all other hopes and happiness for Christ's sake for the blessedness which he offereth, 146.
Doth not merit salvation as a reward, ii. 153 ; is assent, consent, and afl&ance, 154 ; is a believing in Christ, 155 ; the prime benefits which it respecteth are reconciliation with God, and the everlasting fruition of him in glory, 156 ; immediate acts and effects of, 158.
And repentance, in what they agree, ii. 194 ; in what they differ, 195 ; reasons why these are required in order to pardon, 196.
A firm and cordial assent to truth, ii. 349 ; a consent to receive Chris' as offered, 350 ; trust in him for the blessings he hath procured for us and promised to us, 351.
Why required that we may receive benefit by Christ, ii. 353 ; in respect of God, that our hearts may be possessed with a full apprehension of his grace, ih. ; with respect to Christ, because it alone can appre- hend the whole dispensation of grace by him, 354 ; because till we believe in him, we can have no comfort or use of all his offices, ib. ; with respect to that holiness and obedience which God expecteth from the creature, 355 ; with respect to our comfort, ib. ; confutation of presumptions regarding, 356.
Alone is but as sight, with love as taste, iii. 81.
Though the gift of God, yet we must labour for, iii. 215 ; to see our own weakness, ib. ; to manifest our obedience to God, and meet him in his own way, ib. ; to manifest our desires after it, 216 ; because, although we may not get faith by using the means, we shall not with- out using them, ib. ; likely that God will meet us in his own way, ib. ; his usual way to meet those that seek him, ih. Is to a godly, as reason is to a natural man, iii. 226. TOL. XXII. O
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Faitli, a knowledge or apprehension of Jesus Christ, iii. 421 ; yet there is a. knowledge, and there are apprehensions, of Christ, which are not faith, ih. ] effects of faith ascribed to knowledge, ib. -, most con- siderable acts of faith expressed by words proper to knowledge, ib. ; some objects of faith are things to be known and apprehended according to the revelation of God, 422 ; faith opposed to such things as imply a defect of knowledge, ib. ; God's work in reference to the begetting of faith plainly expressed to be a work upon the under- standing, ib.
Why, of all other graces, the one that justifies, iii. 435 ; it is the most receptive grace, ib. ; most loyal and true to God, ih. ; makes the way more sure, ib. • it was by unbelief that we fell, so by faith we are re- stored, ib. ; acts of justifying, 436 ; two implied, a sight of ourselves, and of our inability to help ourselves, ib. ; formal explicit acts, 437 ; knowledge of Christ, his goodness and excellency, ib. ; desire, ib. ;. seeking of Christ, ib. ; receiving and resting upon Christ, ib. ; is- always renewing its own acts, 438; aimeth at the increase of itself, ib. ; humbleth and smiteth for sin, 439 ; purgeth the heart from sin, ih. ; sets a high price and value upon Christ, ib. ; worketh by love, iZ>. ] how it justifies, 440 ; not as a joint cause with works, ib. ; not as an act of grace in us, ih. ; not as merely receiving the witness of our justification, ih. ; as an instrument which God hath deputed to the- apprehension and application of Christ's righteousness, ih.