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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,

CHAPLAIN TO THE LOCK HOSPITAL.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.
I speak as unto wise men; judge ye what I say.

Acts xvi. 31.

1 John v. 1.

1 Cor. x. 15.

SECOND EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED.

Buckingham,

PRINTED BY J. SEELEY.

SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY, AVE-MARIA-LANE; MATHEWS, STRAND;
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AND AT NO. 2, CHAPEL-STREET, GROSVENOR-PLACE.

1801.

(Price One Shilling and Six-pence.)

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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 deviations from the plain meaning of the inspired writers.

These are obvious sources of mistake and perplexity; and another may also be properly noticed. Pious men, who never intended to form a party, have been so griev ed 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

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