doth denote Two Things.

1. The Object of Faith. Or, Those Truths and Doctrines which the Sick Man is obliged to Know and Believe.

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

Now the Sick Man is to examine his Faith in both these Respects.

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 Christian Man should, or No ? Or, as it is more fully expressed in the Office of Baptifm, Whether he Know and Believe all those Things, which a Christian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul's health. That is, Whether he K 5 believe

believe all those Truths that are necessary to Salvation?

The which Truths and Doctrines are contained Primarily, and at large in the H. Scriptures, (which are the Rule of the Christian Faith;) But Secondarily, and more Compendioufly, in the Apostles Creed.

This Creed the Sick Man promised to Believe at his Baptifm : And doth now Profess 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.

Do Believe in God the father Almighty, Maker

of Heaven and Earth.

The Explication.

Loving him

as my Father,

Reverencing him as the Al

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

The Creed.

And in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our L020.

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The Explication.

Believe in Thee, O thou King of Glory, the everlasting Son of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ; 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 Conceibed by the Holy Ghost, boin of the Airgin Mary.

The Explication.

I Believe, O Holy Jefus, That

thou, who art God Blessed for ever, wast Born in Time; and by the Operation of the Holy Ghost, waft

wast made very Man of the SubStance of the Virgin Mary; and that without Spot of Sin, to make

us clean from all Sin.

The Creed.

That he Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was Crucified, Dead and Buried.

The Explication.

I Believe, O Blesled Jefus, that

thou didst Suffer, what otherwife we must have Suffered for

ever.

That thou wast Crucified, to fet us free from the Curse of the Law.

That thou didst Die, and thereby take away the Sting of Death.

That thou wast Buried in the Grave, and hadst the Victory over it.

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