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a full and ample Retribution. And this I beg for the fake of Jefus Chrift. Amen. ET

I have now endeavoured to Direct the Sick Man, How he may know, Whether he Repent him truly of his Sins?

And am next to Admonish him, to finish his Repentance, and to make it as perfect as he can.

And what he is further to Do, may be reduced to thefe Three Particulars. 1. Conftant and Daily Prayers. 2 Receiving the Holy Communion. 3. The Abfolution of the Church.

Of which I fhall Treat in a diftin&t Chapter, under this Title; viz. The Daily Prayers of the Sick Man, and other Inftances of bis Devotion. Of which in its proper Place.

And fhall now proceed to the Third Inftance of the Sick Man's Duty. And fhall enquire,

3. How the Sick Man is to exercife Faith and Trust in God?

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premife; That the Word Faith (amongst other Significations) doth

doth denote Two Things.

t. The Object of Faith. Or, Thofe Truths and Doctrines SorandDoctrines which the Sick Man is obliged to Know and Believe.

2. Faith doth denote that Act of the Soul, which doth affent unto, or receive thofe Doctrines; and doth practically improve them.

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Now the Sick Man is to examine his Faith in both thefe Respects. i troqat ybtrudijah krs 1. He is to examine, Whether his Belief is Sound and Orthodox? Or, in the Words of our Church, Whether he do Believe as. a Chriftian Man fhould, or No? Or, as it is more fully expreffed in the Office of Baptism, Whether be Know and Believe all thofe Things, which a Chriftian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul's health. That is, Whether he believe

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believe all thofe Truths that are neceffary to Salvation?

The which Truths and Dotrines are contained Primarily, and at large in the H. Scriptures, which are the Rule of the Chri ftian Faith;) But Secondarily, and more Compendioufly, in the Apofties Creed.

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This Creed the Sick Man pro mifed to Believe at his Baptifm! And doth now Profefs to Believe at his Death.

And therefore let him seriously and deliberately repeat it, with the following Explications.

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The Sick Man's Faith

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CREED.

I Da Believe in God the

Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth.

The Explication.

I Oving him as my Father,

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Reverencing him as the Al

mighty; and Committing my Soul and Body to him, as to a Faithful Creator..

The Creed..

And in Jefus Chiift his only begotten Son our Lozd.

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The Explication.

Believe in Thee, O thou King of Glory, the everlasting Son of God the Father, and our Lord Jefus Chrift; that thou art very God of very God, begotten not made; Being of One Substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us Men, and for our Salvation came down from Heaven.

The Creed.

And that he was Concetbed by the Holy Gholt, bo2nK of the Airgin Mary, Ba

The Explication.

Believe, O Holy Jefus, That thou, who art God Blessed for ever, waft Born in Time; and by the Operation of the Holy Ghof,

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