Gospel-truth stated and vindicated wherein some of Dr. Crisp's opinions are considered, and the opposite truths are plainly stated and confirmed
Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.

TESTIMONIES.

You have already heard the Sence of the Assembly and Elders at the Savoy. You may see in Larg. Catech. Q. What is justifying Faith? They tell us, That the Sinner is con∣vinced of his Sin and Misery, who receiveth Christ. And in the Directory for Visitation of the Sick, they are for propounding Christ and his Merits to penitent Believers, and En∣deavours are to be first used to humble the Sick under the Sense of his Guilt, and the Wrath of God, &c.

Page  89 Doctor Owen tells us, There is nothing in this whole Doctrine, that I will more firmly adhere to, than the Necessity of Convictions, previous to true Believing. Of Justif. P. 133. The Necessity of them; yea, Antecedency of them to true Faith and Pardon, he proves P. 98 99. as also Displicency, Sorrow, Fear, a Desire of Deliverance, with other necessary Effects of true Convictions. P. 102, 103. And he tells us, The Belief of the Pardon of our own Sins is not proposed to Men in the first Preaching of the Gospel, as that which they are first to believe. And P. 140. Neither is it possible there should be any Exercise of this Faith unto Justification, but where the Mind is prepared, disposed, and determined unto uni∣versal Obedience.

Mr. Norton of New England proveth at large,

That there are certain preparatory Works between the Carnal Rest of the Soul in the State of Sin, and effectual Vocation; or Christ in his ordinary Dispensation of the Gospel, calleth not Sinners as Sinners, but Sinners, i. e. qualified Sinners, immediate∣ly to believe.
These are his own Words, which he proves, Orthod. Evang. from P. 129. to 140.