WARRANT AND NATURE OF FAITH IN CHRIST CONSIDERED, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO THE VARIOUS BY THOMAS SCOTT, RECTOR OF ASTON SANDFORD, BUCKS. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.—Acts xvi. 31. THIRD EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR L. B. SEELEY, 169, FLEET-STREET. 1819. Price Two Shillings. 1268.0.21 The sinner's warrant for believing in Christ. SECT. I. The subject opened... SECT. II. Scriptural proofs that the sinner wants no warrant for believing in Christ, SECT. III. Some reasons for insisting on this position, 'That the word of God is SECT. I. The terms defined and explained 41 SECT. II. Saving faith the effect of regene- ration .. SECT. III. Saving faith always accompa- nied by other things essentially holy.... SECT. IV. The holy nature of faith more SECT. V. Saving faith the principle of all INTRODUCTION. To those who are convinced that all men are lost sinners, in absolute need of a Saviour, and that all things are ready in Jesus Christ for the complete salvation of every believer; a more important question can scarcely be proposed, than that which relates to the warrant and nature of saving faith. At first sight indeed the subject appears very easy: and a reflecting person, conversant with the holy Scriptures, and unacquainted with controversy, will seldom be much perplexed with difficulties respecting it. But men have so bewildered themselves and each other by speculations, and controversies have been so multiplied and managed; that the simple testimony of Scripture is frequently disregarded, or even wrested from its obvious meaning to establish preconceived opinions: while the authority of men is appealed to, in support of evident deviation from the plain meaning of the inspired writers. per These are obvious sources of mistake and plexity; and another may also be properly noticed. Pious men, who never intended to form a party, have been so grieved by witnessing the fatal effects of prevailing errors, and so haunted with the dread of more extensive mischief; that they have been driven into the opposite extreme, as the only effectual remedy. Thus, able and valuable persons, in their zeal for or against certain opinions, write more like special pleaders, than calm enquirers after im B |