The Christians engagement for the Gospell opened in foure sermons on part of the third verse of the Epistle of Jude : also, Christ's approbation of Maries choyce, or, A sermon preached at the funerall of Mris Abbott in Saint Stephens Colman-street, London / by Iohn Goodwin ...

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The Christians engagement for the Gospell opened in foure sermons on part of the third verse of the Epistle of Jude : also, Christ's approbation of Maries choyce, or, A sermon preached at the funerall of Mris Abbott in Saint Stephens Colman-street, London / by Iohn Goodwin ...
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Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
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London :: Printed by T. Cotes for P. Cole ...,
1641.
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Abbott, -- Mrs., ca. 1614-1640.
Bible. -- N.T. -- Jude I, 3 -- Sermons.
Funeral sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The Christians engagement for the Gospell opened in foure sermons on part of the third verse of the Epistle of Jude : also, Christ's approbation of Maries choyce, or, A sermon preached at the funerall of Mris Abbott in Saint Stephens Colman-street, London / by Iohn Goodwin ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41485.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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§. 6.

6. For the meaning of which words (to dispatch that very briefly) I shall (for the present) onely need to shew you, first, what I conceive to bee meant by Faith; (what the earnest contending for the faith here spoken of mea∣neth, wee shall see after∣ward:) and secondly, what the meaning and waight of that latter clause is (which was once delivered to the Saints.)

For the word Faith, it is a tearme the holy Ghost useth for many purposes, and in divers significati∣ons; onely two I finde

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pretenders for this place.

First, by Faith some un∣derstand that grace or ha∣bit of faith by which these men were justified, which indeed is the most com∣mon & proper acception. And thus the meaning would be, that Christians should earnestly contend, to maintaine and make good that precious grace, wrought in the heart, upon which their eternall peace and safety depends against all that may indanger the life and power of it.

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