faith in Christ. As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. 2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. iv. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. Tit. i. 13. Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. Heb. x. 23. Hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering. James i. 3. The trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 Pet. i. 7. 1 Pet. v. 8, 9. Your adversary the devil, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist, steadfast in the faith. 2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware lest ye fall from your steadfastness. and in your love to us; see that ye abound in this grace also [of liberality]. Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love. Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Eph. i. 15, 16. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you. Col. i. 4. iii. 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, &c. 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks to God, remembering your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.-Ver. 7. Ye were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. v. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you toward each other aboundeth. 1 John v. 4. This is the victory that over- ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, cometh the world, even our faith. See John through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief viii. 31. Compare with Rom. x. 8. See of the truth. also, Acts xiv. 22. Eph. vi. 10. 2 Tim. ii. 1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment 1. 1 John ii. 14. Rev. ii. 13.—xiii. 10. See is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good Heb. chap. xi. throughout. conscience, and of faith unfeigned. XIV. Graces and duties accompanying true faith; or marks and evidences of true faith. Exod. iv. 31. The people believed, and worshipped. xiv. 31. The people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord. Ps. cvi. 11, 12. The waters covered their enemies: then believed they his words; they sung his praise. cxvi. 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken. 2 Cor. iv. 13. Ps. xxvii. 13. Jonah iii. 5. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. Acts xv. 9. God purifying the hearts of the Gentiles by faith. xvi. 34. The keeper of the prison rejoiced, believing in God, with all his house. xx. 21. Paul testified both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. xxiv. 24, 25. Felix heard Paul concerning the faith. Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. I Cor. xiii. 2. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.-Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity. 2 Cor. viii. 7. As ye abound in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, and in all diligence, Ver. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ii. 15. Continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety. iii. 9. Holding the mystery of faith, in a pure conscience. iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. ii. 22. Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience.-Ver. 14. Continue in the things thou hast learned.-Ver. 17. Be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. Tit. i. 1. The faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgment of the truth which is after godliness. ii. 1, 2. Speak thou the things that become sound doctrine; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, and in patience. iii. 8. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, That they which have believed in God, might be| careful to maintain good works. Ver. 14. Heb. vi. 12. Be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. James ii. 14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he have faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?-Ver. 17. Faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone.-Ver. 20. Know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead.-Ver. 26. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. See ver. 22, 24. 2 Pet. i. 5—7. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. XVI. God being the author of faith, he is prayed to and thanked for faith as his gift. Rom. xv. 13. The God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. Col. i. 3, 4. Philem. ver. 5. vi. 23. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks to God always for you, remembering your work of faith and labour of love. 2 Thess. ii. 13. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God 1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment, always for you, brethren, because your faith That we should believe on the name of his groweth exceedingly.-Ver. 11. We pray alSon Jesus Christ, and love one another. ways for you, that our God would count you Jude 20, 21. Ye, beloved, building up your-worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good selves on your most holy faith, praying in the pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of with power. God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to eternal life. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. xiii. 10. Here is the patience and faith of the saints. xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. XV. The author, or cause and means of faith. God the author and supreme cause of faith. Matt. xvi. 16, 17. Peter said to Jesus, Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. John i. 13. They that believed on his name were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1 John iv. 14, 15.-v. 1. Acts xiii. 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. xiv. 27. God opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. Rom. xii. 3. Think soberly, as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 1 Cor. ii. 5. Your faith should not stand but in the power of God. Eph. ii. 8. By grace ye are saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. 2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. See 1 Tim. i. 14. XVII. Christ the author of faith. Luke xvii. 5. The apostles said, Lord, increase our faith. 1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ was exceeding abundant, with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. Let us run with patience the race set before us, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. 1 Pet. i. 21. Ye by him do believe in God who raised him from the dead. 2 Pet. i. 1. To them that have obtained like precious faith with us, through the righteousness of God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. See Eph. vi. 23. 2 Thess. i. 12. The Holy Ghost the author of faith. 1 Cor. xii. 8, 9. To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge: To another faith, by the same Spirit. 2 Cor. iv. 13. We having the same Spirit of faith, also believe. Gal. v. 22. 23. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. XVIII. Subordinate mean of faith is God's word. John xx. 31. These are writ ten, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God. Rom. i. 16. 1 John v. 13. Rev. i. 19. XIX. A gospel ministry the means of faith. John i. 7. John came for a witness, that all men might believe. Acts xix. 4. xvii. 20. Jesus said, I pray not for these alone which thou gavest me out of the world, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. xix. 35. He that saw bare record, that ye might believe. Acts ii. 41. At hearing Peter's sermon, there were added to the church about three thousand souls. iv. 4. Many that heard the word believed. viii. 12. They believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ. Ver. 13. xi. 21. The hand of the Lord was with the apostles, and a great number believed. xiv. 1. Paul and Barnabas so spake that a great number believed. xv. 7. Peter said, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. xvii. 2. Paul reasoned out of the scriptures, &c.-Ver. 4. And some of the Jews believed, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.-Ver. 34. Certain men clave to Paul and believed. Acts xviii. 4. 8. 27, 28.-xix. 9. See xxvi. 17, 18. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to the Gentiles, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Rom. i. 5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith. x. 8. The word is nigh thee: that is, the word of faith which we preach. Ver. 14, 15. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? Ver. 17. So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. xvi. 25, 26. The mystery which was kept secret, is now made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. 1 Cor. i. 21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. iii. 5, 6. Who is Paul or Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. Ver. 7. xv. 2. I have delivered unto you the gospel by which ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.-Ver. 11. So we preach, and so ye believed. 2 Cor. i. 24. Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. Eph. ii. 20. Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. iv. 11-13. Christ gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man. Phil. i. 25. I shall continue with you, for your furtherance and joy of faith. ii. 17. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. 1 Thess. iii. 2. We sent Timotheus, to establish and comfort you concerning your faith. -Ver. 10. Praying that we might see your face, and perfect that which is lacking in your faith. Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow. 1 John i. 3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you. THE GOSPEL CALLED FAITH, AND THE LAW OF FAITH.-Rom. iii. 27. Boasting is excluded by the law of faith. x. 8. The word of faith which we preach. Gal. i. 23. Paul preached the faith which once he destroyed. iii. 2. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Ver. 5. Ver. 23. Before faith came, we were shut up unto the faith that should afterward be revealed. Ver. 25. See 1 Tim. i. 4.-v. 8. Jude ver. 3. Rev. ii. 13. XX. Promises to faith. Justification promised to believing in God. Gen. xv. 6. Abram believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3. 9. Gal. iii. 6. Jam. ii. 23. John v. 24. Jesus said, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. See Luke i. 45. XXI. Justification to believing in Christ promised. Acts xiii. 39. By him all that be lieve are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses. Rom. iii. 21, 22. The righteousness of God (i. e. justification) without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets: Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe. Ver. 25, 26. Jesus Christ hath God set forth, to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins: To declare his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of them that believe in Jesus. Ver. 28. Therefore we conclude that a man | XXII. Adoption, or being the sons of God, is justified by faith without the deeds of the promised. John i. 12. To as many as relaw. Ver. 30. God shall justify the circum-ceived Christ, to them gave he power to becision by faith and the uncircumcision through come the sons of God, even to them that faith. believe on his name. iv. 5. He that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness, (or justification.) v. 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Rom. viii. 17. XXIII. God's love promised to believers in Christ. John xvi. 27. The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and x. 4. Christ is the end of the law for right-have believed that I came out from God. eousness (or justification) to every one that believeth. 24. xi. 20. Thou standest by faith. 2 Cor. i. Ver. 23. The Jews, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in.-Ver. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved. Ver. 30. 31, 32. Gal. ii. 16. A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.-Ver. 21. If righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. iii. 8, 9. The scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blest. (Gen. xii. 3.) So they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Ver. 1. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident; for, The just shall live by faith. Hab. ii. 4. Rom. i. 17. Heb. x. 38. Ver. 12. And the law is not of faith; but, The man that doeth these things shall live in them. Ver. 22. The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Ver. 24. The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. v. 5. We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness (or justification) by faith. XXIV. Christ prayeth for believers. John xvii. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. XXV. The sins of believers pardoned. Acts x. 43. Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Ch. xiii. 38. Rom. iii. 25. Him hath God set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins. XXVI. The holy Spirit is given to be lievers. John vii. 38, 39. Jesus said, He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. Gal. iii. 13, 14. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. XXVII. They have light and direction. John xii. 36. Believe in the light: (that is, in Christ.) Ch. i. 9.-viii. 12.—ix. 5. Ver. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. XXVIII. They have grace and peace. Pet. i. 1, 2. To them that have obtained like precious faith with us, grace and peace be multiplied. Rom. v. 1. Ver. 6. In Jesus Christ neither circumci-2 sion availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. Phil. iii. 8-10. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith; that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death. XXIX. They have joy and comfort. John xiv. 1. Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. Rom. xv. 13. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. 1 Pet. i. 8. In whom [Christ] believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 John v. 10. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself, John viii. 56. Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad. XXX. Christ is precious to them. 2 Thess. i. 10. He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe. 1 Pet. ii. 7. To them that believe he is precious. XXXI. They have access to God in prayer. Eph. iii. 12. In Christ we have boldness, and access with confidence by the faith of him. XXXII. Sanctification by faith. Acts xv. 9. God purifying their hearts by faith. xxvi. 18. That they may receive an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. XXXIII. Salvation by faith in God. Dan. vi. 23. No manner of hurt was found upon Daniel, [in the lion's den,] because he believed in his God. XXXIV. Salvation to Christians by faith in Christ. Isa. xxviii. 16. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; he that believeth shall not make haste. Rom. ix. 33.-x. 11. He that believeth shall not be ashamed. 1 Pet. ii. 6. He that believeth shall not be confounded. Mark xvi. 15, 16. Jesus said, Preach the gospel: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. John iii. 14—16. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Ver. 17, 18. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Ver. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him, vi. 35. Jesus said, He that believeth on me shall never thirst. Ver. 40. This is the will of him that sent me, that every one that seeth the Son and believeth on him, may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day.-Ver. 47. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. xi. 25. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Ver. 26. Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die, [or shall not die for ever.] xx. 31. These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name. Acts xvi. 31. Paul and Silas said to the jailor, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. xxvi. 18. That they may receive an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. Rom. x. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Eph. ii. 8. By grace ye are saved, through faith. 2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 1 Tim. i. 16. I [Paul] obtained mercy, that in me Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. 2 Tim. iii. 15. The Scriptures are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. iv. 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing, Heb. iv. 3. We which have believed do enter into rest. vi. 12. Be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. x. 39. We are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 1 Pet. i. 5. We are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.-Ver. 9. Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 John v. 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life. XXXV. Things extraordinary promised to the faith of some primitive Christians. Matt. xxi. 21. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this that is done to the fig-tree, but also if ye shall say to this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done. Luke xvii. 6. Ver. 22. And all things whatsoever ye shall |