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Rh suaded that it is true. If it is not true before it be believed, then the Evidence of Faith comes after believing, i.e. the Effect goes before the Cause, or a Sinner believes a Falshood, and presently it becomes a Truth. This is the very Soul and Scope of the Marrow Doctrine which Mr Boston and the Seceders have been at Pains to trim up and render fit for the Fashion. It appears wondrous strange, that if all the Hearers of the Gospel are obliged to believe that Christ died for them, that his Atonement does not save them from the Sin of Unbelief as well as every other Iniquity. It is no where recorded in the Gospel, that Christ died for all the Hearers thereof, distinct from the rest of Mankind, nor does the Scope of it teach us any Thing more or less concerning the objects of his Atonement, than that he laid down his Life for his Sheep. Can it be supposed, that Christ shed his Blood on uncertain Conditions; that he paid the Price of Redemption for all, and yet had no Security for obtaining the Objects thereof? Can such Folly be imputed to him who is infinitly wise, or such Unfaithfulness be attributed to the faithful and true Witness. shall favour the Reader, with a few Passages from that Act of the Associate Presbytery; and leave him to judge for himself, whether or not I have done them Justice. Page 32, "They affirm a Man's being persuaded that Christ is his, is necessary to answer the Call and offer of the Gospel according to the Deed of Gift