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I answere, a sinner may pray and bee heard, before a sauing Faith; else why doe our Diuines make this as a preparation to it, viz: with an humbled and sorrowing heart to approach to the throne of grace, to confesse his sinnes, and to craue pardon, as
hath beene shewed before. Surely obedi∣ence to Gods Commandement, that bids vs pray, and beliefe of the promise, to heare vs, may some way make our prayer ac∣ceptable, and to be graunted, though wee haue not Faith in Christ, though not auail∣able vnto saluation: 2, Cornelius Faith was not faith in Christ dead and risen, but an expectation of a Messiah to come; for how can that be a sauing faith, which ministers iust occasion to doubt, whether Christ bee come in the flesh or no: 1. Ioa. 4.3. 2. Ioa. 7. Thirdly, Cornelius was not a proselite; as yet he was vncleane, as ap∣peares by the vision: for Peter durst not Preach the Gospell to him being a Gentile and vncircumcised: therfore is it not likely that as yet he had Faith in Christ.
Likewise the reason, why Iehus action and Ahabs, were euery way sinfull and vnacceptable, is not good; for the Rule propounded of the acceptation of our per∣sons in Christ; of ayming in our actions at Gods glory, and of sincerity in the man∣ner of doing them, doth make a man that doth such actions acceptable vnto saluati∣on, the want of those doth not make them euery way vnacceptable as they imagine.