THE NULLITY OF REPENTANCE Without FAITH IN THЕ REDEMPTION JESUS CHRIST, Proved from HOLY SCRIPTURE IN 4. CA-BODLE Three SERMONS. BY BENJAMIN HOLLOWAY, L.L.B. Sorrow according to God worketh Repentance to Salvation not to be Repented of, but the Sorrow of the World worketh Death. Printed at the THEATRE for Richard Clements; and 100.bb. 15: IANA SERMON I. ACTS II. 38. Repent, and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the Remission of Sins, and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. T HE Words are Part of the Sequel of St. Peter's Sermon to the People of the Jews and other Nations, when they were gather'd about the Apostles, on Occasion of the Wonderful Defcent of the Holy Ghost upon Them, with the Gift of Languages and Miracles: Which, He told them, was but the Effect or Consequence of the Refurrection and Afcenfion of Christ, as the Same had been plainly fore-declar'd by all the ancient Prophets; assuring them, that all Power in Heaven and Earth was now given of God to that fame Jesus whom they had lately Crucified; for that God had made him both Lord and Chrift: that is, The Divinity had exalted the Humanity, and taken It into the Glory of the Essence in Heaven. Now, when they heard this, the Sacred Hiftorian tells us, they were pricked A at at their Heart; they felt a Compunction in their Spirit, and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles; Men and Brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter, in the Words of the Text, Said unto them - Repent, and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the Remission of Sins, and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. You know that Baptism in the Name of Jesus Chrift implies and includes Faith in that Name. He that Believeth and is Baptized---are suppos'd Inseparable; the outward and fenfible Act by the Sacramental Laver, being even a Sign and Testification of the inward Difpofition and Application of the Mind in Believing. Therefore, From the Text altogether we may collect the whole Doctrine of the Foundation and Means of the Forgiveness of our Sins, and of our Acceptance with God. It is by Repentance and Faith, with Baptism by Water and the Co-operation of the Holy Ghost. I have in some former Discourses treated of Faith in the All-fufficient Satisfaction for Sins by the Blood of Christ; and of the Excellency and Efficacy of the great Virtue or Grace of Repentance; Two Acts, which, when rightly Constituted, I suppos'd to be in the general Estimation of Christians, as in the Nature of Things they are, Inseparable from each other. But, fince among the many Impious Attempts that have of late been made upon Christianity, One has been to divide these Two, Repentance and Faith in the Redemption by Jesus Chrift from each other; or rather to perswade People, that a |