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Saviour, every faculty seeking contentment in Mm, ih. ; making after him with the earnest motions and lively atfections of the soul, as desire and delight, 23G. Faith, the necessity of, in temporal affliction, xii. 145.
And hope, the cognation that is between, xii. 202 ; wherein they differ, ih.
And love, exercise great influence on our victory over the world, xii. 399.
Is such a belief of God's love to us in Christ as giveth us a lively sense of it in our souls, xii. 281 ; faith is the fruit of effectual calling, ib.
Hope, and love, evidence to the christian that heaven is his home, xiii. 5.
And sight contrasted and distinguished, xiii. 12 ; the one is for earth, the other for heaven, 14 ; until we have sight it is a great advantage to have faith, 1 6 ; the relief faith yields in prospect of eternal life, ih. ; reasons why those having faith are not satisfied till they have sight, 17: sight either ocular or contemplative, 18; if we have faith we may be sure we shall have sight, ib. ; prepares us for, and gives us a title to, the things expressed by sight, 19 ; we must walk or live by faith, 20 ; reasons why, ib. ; the advantages of living by faith, 21.
(Spiritual life a matter of, xiii. 207.
Hope, and love, our light, life, and power, implanted in us in the new creation, xiii. 244.
Difference between the acts and the effects of, xiii. 323 ; the word sometimes taken for the doctrine, sometimes for the grace, 324 ; faith and hope distinguished, 325 ; gives such a reality to things hoped for as if they were actually enjoyed, 326 ; this is done four ways — by hope, by the promises, by Christ, and by the first-fruits, ib. ; the ■ first-fruits of faith are union with Christ, the joys of the Spirit, and
grace, 330 ; the benefit and advantage of this act, and the use of faith in the spiritual life, 332 ; it is very necessary, ib. ; it gives strength to all the graces of the spiritual life, 333 ; Quest, whether suffering or active faith manifests the greater love to God ? ib. ; how we may discern whether we have that faith which is the evidence of things hoped for, 339 ; exhortation to work up faith to such an effect that it may be the substance of things hoped for, 342 ; means and duties to this end, 343 ; true faith an evidence or convincing light concerning eternal verities, 346 ; there are in faith four things — a clear apprehension, ib. ; a convictive light, 348 ; an overpowering con- viction, 349 ; and a practical conviction, 350 ; exhortation to exa- mination and trial whether we have such a faith as is an evidence or convincing light, 351 ; difference between the light of faith and com- mon knowledge, ib. ; the evidence of faith is conversant about things unseen by sense or reason, 354 ; the advantage of this in the spiritual life, 356 ; encouragements to Uving by faith, 360 • reproof of those that are all for sense and present appearance, ib. ; directions to dis- cover whether we have that faith that can believe things unseen, 363 ; persuasives to get it, 369 ; directions to get and increase it, 372 ; objection answered, that faith makes way for fond credulity, 371 ; the fathers under the law had the same kind of faith that we have, 374 ; free grace no novel doctrine, ib. ; by faith the fathers obtained renown in the church, 375 ; to get and maintain faith should be our principal care, ib. ; means to this end, 376 ; the faith of the elders was an active faith, that discovered itself in good fruits and gracious actions, 377 ; a good report one of the rewards of faith, 379 ; the manner in
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which this reward is dispensed, 382 ; whether eying a good report iu the exercise of faith is not vainglory, 384. Faith of Abel, what it was, xiii. 465 ; nature of the testimony he received, 474.
Differences believers from the world in the duties of religion, xiii. 46G ; how it does so, ih.
Cases of conscience — (1.) Concerning the discerning work of faith, how shall we do to see him that is invisible, and rightly conceive of God in prayer so as to find an awe of him upon our spirits? xiii. 471 ; (2,; Concerning* the receiving part of faith, how shall we do to interest ourselves in the assistance of Jesus Christ, and borrow help from heaven when we are employed in duties of worship 1 4:72 ; (3.) Con- cerning the reasoning work of faith, how far assurance is necessary, that we may set faith on arguing when our evidences are dark i 473.
How we are justified by, xiii. 477 ; different respects in which God, Christ, and faith are said to justify in scripture, ib. ; does not justify in the sense of the Antinomians, as receiving witness of the Spirit's testimony, 478 ; the fruit of effectual calling, ih. ; how God looks upon us as justified, 479 ; reasons why faith is deputed to this ser- vice, 480 ; what kind of faith it is that justifies, 481 ; in the acts of, there are some things implied and some things express and formal, ih. ; that which is implied is knowledge and feeling, ih. ; that which is express is resting upon Christ or a closing with Christ, 483 ; this last usually expressed in scripture as coming to Christ, running to Christ, seeking Christ, and receiving Christ, ih. ; rules concerning these acts of faith, 485.