Christ loved me
Taking the word in a more particular sense, faith is a divine evidence and conviction, not only that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself (2 Corinthians 5:19), but also that Christ loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). It is by this faith (whether we term it the essence, or rather a property of it) that we receive Christ, that we receive him in all his offices, as our prophet, priest, and king. It is by this that he is made of God to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30).
1771 text
2. Taking the word in a more particular sense, faith is a divine evidence and conviction, not only that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; but also that Christ loved me, and gave himself for me. It is by this faith, (whether we term it, the essence, or rather a property thereof) that we receive Christ, that we receive him in all his offices, as our prophet, priest, and king. It is by this that he is made of God unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 43 in the 1771 Works. Ephesians 2:8.
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