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(A) THis is a very good discovery of the nature of right sa∣ving faith, which how it can consist with Mr Dels for∣mer description of the nature of faith, Sect. 17. (A) I see not.
(B) The doctrine delivered by Mr Del in the following uses which he maketh of the point before him, is old, sound and good, and needs not any new notions to support or inforce it. If that passage following, faith can trust in Christ in the midest of all
sin and evil, as wel as in the midst of all graces and vertues, be understood with some grains of Gospel salt, which it much need∣eth, as intending that when a man seeth nothing in himself but sin and evil, he may yet, and should then, being burdened, come to Christ for rest, and trust on Christ for life, as much as if he saw himself in the middest of all graces and vertues, saying with the Apostle, This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of which I am chief: It may then (as I conceive) be admitted for a truth, which yet had need be delivered with much cauti∣on, and many Gospel provisoes, lest otherwise it might occasi∣on in men a boldnesse to continue in sin, that grace may abound; which is a dreadful abuse of the Gospel noted and renounced by the Apostle, Rom. 6.1. I think that much of that reproach of Antinomianism, which many have drawn upon themselves in our dayes, hath proceeded from an Antinomian liberty of lan∣guage, which they have affected and taken to themselves, hold∣ing to no ordinary rule or law of words in their expressions, but loving to deliver old and sound doctrines in new and dange∣rous terms and forms of words, which have (no doubt) mis∣guided multitudes into wicked, and wretched errours, which I am apt to conceive, their leaders did not (as their disciples do) apprehend to be Scripture truths: It would be very happy if (at the length) that Apostolical rule might obtain amongst us, both in words and deeds: Let us not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way: Rom. 14.13.