COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION. W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh. JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh. D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURGH. OF THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D., SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD. With General Preface BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM, And Memoir BY ROBERT HALLEY, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEPENDENT NEW COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. VIII. CONTAINING : THE OBJECT AND ACTS OF JUSTIFYING FAITH. EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON. M.DCCC.LXIV. 9-6 45 MB4 Halewood 8-21-45 CONTENTS. The second object of faith, Jesus Christ.-Of our being drawn to him by the Father, and our treating with him for an interest in his person, and salvation by him.-That Christ, as God-man in one person, is the object of our faith.—That as a spiritual Messiah and Saviour he is propounded to our faith. That not only Christ in his person, but in all that he The free grace of God, as declared and proposed in the covenant, is the object of faith.-Of the soul's applying itself unto the free grace of God, and treating with it for its salvation.— That the absolute declarations of this free grace, or the absolute promises of the gospel, are the object of faith of recumbence, or adherence.-That election-grace, and the immutability of God's counsel, as indefinitely proposed in the promises, are also the object of faith.-How the believing |