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issue with all ranks of unbelievers ; the ground of 

 whose condemnation will be, that they wilfully with- 

 held Iheir assent from the truths of revelation, when 

 they had the same evidence, which would have fully 

 convinced them in matters merely human. 



Secondly, A consent of the will, following the as- 

 sent of the intellect. The whole process of the 

 mind, in obtaining such a faith, is performed in this 

 manner. 1. A proposition being offered to us, the 

 will consents to weigh the evidence for it. 2. The 

 intellect weighs it, and if the moral evidence be full, 

 assents to it. Thus it commences a point of know- 

 ledge, and on a second consent of the will, a point 

 of faith. 



But it is worth observing, that there can be no 

 immediate assent to any thing inconceivable, or in- 

 comprehensible. To explain this by a few instances. 

 ** There is a God." When, upon full evidence, we 

 assent to tlus, what is intelligible in that proposition, 

 is the immediate object of our knowledge. The in- 

 comprehensible nature and attributes of God are 

 only the remote and mediate objects of it. 



Again. " This is my beloved Son/' We assent 

 to this, as a perfectly intelligible proposition, on full 

 evidence that it was spoke from heaven ; being as- 

 sured that Chrst, not in any unintelligible manner, 

 but according to the plain sense of the words, is as 

 really and truly the Son of God, as one man is the 

 son of another. 



He who believes thus far, without any respect to 



