WHAT OFTEN OBSCURES THE GOSPEL

Because though otherwise evangelical many cannot take up any assurance or persuasion in the nature of faith, distinct from that assurance of sense which follows after faith; nor take up the assurance, application, and appropriation of faith, grounded upon the word of God, which is the duty of all that hear the gospel, distinct from the assurance of sense founded upon the work of God, which is the privilege of believers at times. How miserably do many confound the grounds of faith with the marks of faith? and so shut the door of faith, many times, against all that have not the evidences of faith; and through mistake of the gospel method of salvation, sometimes make the marks and evidences of faith in them who have believed to be so many hindrances to the faith of them who never believed, as if they ought not to believe the love and grace of God revealed in the Word, unless they have these marks: whereas sinners are warranted to build upon the grounds of faith that are without them in the Word, though they can see no marks of faith within them; for to build upon these, although they had them, would be a building of sense and not a building of faith.

Excerpt from The Beauties of the Reverend Ralph Erskine

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