Without faith it is impossible to please God, xiv. 72 ; the kind of faith • here implied, 73 ; a mere general faith in the being of God not
enough, ib. ; opinions of the ancients as to faith, 74; no saving faith but in Jesus Christ, 76 ; objections answered, 77.
Of infants, opinions of the fathers as to, xiv. 81 ; subjects of election before birth, 82; difference between the children of believers and of- unbelievers, 83 ; children dying in infancy have faith, 84 ; what kind of faith this is, ib. ; is a work of the Holy Ghost, 86.
The excellency of, xiv. 101 ; the necessity of, 102 ; why God hath put so much honour on this grace, 103 ; is the mother of obedience, 105 ; knowledge, assent, and affiance necessary parts of, 106 ; differ- ent degrees of, 110 ; the lowest degree of saving faith, what it is. Ill ; leaning on the Lord, what it is, 115 ; faith bringeth God most glory and us most good, 118; how we must do to get faith, 119.
Ground of ISToah's, xiv. 177 ; God usually gives warning of ap- proaching judgments, ih. ; God usually revealed himself to holy and righteous persons, 179 ; revelation the ground of faith, 180 ; the word of God the revelation of the Spirit, ih. ; threatenings and pro- mises alike objects of faith, 183 ; necessity of the threatenings, 185 ; Quest, whether the children of God, those especially that have received the first-fruits of the Spirit, may make use of the threatenings and terrors of the Lord? 186; directions how to use the threatenings, 188.
The strength and force of Noah's, xiv. 189 ; reasons why it is the property of faith to be moved by such things as are not liable to sense, 190 ; reproof of the security of the world with respect both to particular and general judgments, 191 ; the fruits and consequences of Noah's faith, 195 ; godly fear a fruit and effect of faith, ih.
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as it works upon the promises, begets love and hope ; it works upon the threatenings, begets fears, 195 ; what this godly fear is, 196 ; the difference between servile and filial fear, 197 ; as the fear of Noah was the fruit of his faith, so his preparing the ark was the fruit of his fear, 201 ; this act considered in several regards, ib.; the ark a type of Christ, 203 ; as Noah was buried alive in the ark, so are we ' buried with Christ in baptism,' 204 ; wicked children of believing parents are partakers in the temporal blessings of the covenant for their fathers' sakes, 205; encouragements to godly parents concerning their children, ib.; since children are l^eloved of God for their parents' sakes, this should serve to shame and terrify those born of godly parents who are not so themselves, 206 ; how the faith of Noah condemned the world, 207 ; the advantas-es derived from the example of the godly, 208 ; christians should walk so that they may condemn the world, not by their censures, but by their lives, 212 ; directions, ib. ; motives, 213 ; whether all that were drowned in the flood were eternally lost, 216. Faith, wherever it is, bringeth forth true obedience, xiv, 227 ; the ground of this obedience is the call of God, which usually consists of a command and a promise, ib. ; this call is of grace, 228 ; when God calls us to grace, we are not only to leave sin and the world, but all things that are dear to us, 229 ; when we give up ourselves to Christ, God would have us sit down and count the charges, 230 ; faith may sometimes make a halt and grow weary, but it rouseth itself up again, 231, 423 ; it constantly adheres to God, though it doth not presently find what it believes and expects, 231 ; how we shall know that we are called of God, 232 ; how we should behave ourselves in our calling, that we may manifest the obedience of faith, 237. •
It is not enough that we live by faith, we must also die by faith, xiv. 281 ; reasons why, ib. ; what it is to die in faith, 284 ; reasons why they that would die in faith must live in faith, 290.
Is contented with the promises though it cannot have actual possession, xiv. 293 ; the advantage of the promises to, ib. ; there is not only a work of faith upon the promise, but upon the heart of the believer, 295 ; is an act of apprehension, 298 ; it apprehends the blessings as real, ib. ; it pondereth the worth of them, ib., there is actual expec- tation, 299 ; that there is assent and persuasion proved from scripture, ib. ; this persuasion rests on God's truth and power, 300 ; is an act of the will as well as of the understanding, 302 ; the affection that is exercised in embracing the promises is joy, 303 ; this joy is mani- fested partly by the lively act of it in meditation, partly by the solid eflfects of it in our conversation, 303 ; the need there is of the power of the Spirit in the whole business of faith, 305 ; the difference be- tween faith and other things, ib .