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WARRANT AND NATURE

OF

FAITH IN CHRIST

CONSIDERED,

WITH SOME REFERENCE TO THE VARIOUS
CONTROVERSIES ON THAT SUBJECT.

BY THOMAS SCOTT,

RECTOR OF ASTON SANDFORD, BUCKS.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.—Acts xvi. 31.
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.-1 John v. 1.
I speak as unto wise men: judge ye what I say.-1 Cor. x. 15.

THIRD EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR L. B. SEELEY, 169, FLEET-STREET.

1819.

Price Two Shillings.

1268.0.21

BODLEIAN

LIBRAR

17 FEB C3

OXFORD

C. Baldwin, Printer, New Bridge-street, London.

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.

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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

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