THE NULLITY O F REPENTANCE Without FAITH IN THE REDEMPTION BY JESUS CHRIST, Proved from HOLY SCRIPTURE I N 4. A-BOD 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. OXFORD: Printed at the THEATRE for Richard Clements; and 100. bb. 15: SERMON I ACTS II. 38. Repent, and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jefus Chrift, for the Remiffion of Sins, and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghoft. 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 Occafion 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 Confequence of the Refurrection and Afcenfion of Chrift, as the Same had been plainly fore-declar'd by all the ancient Prophets; affuring them, that all Power in Heaven and Earth was now given of God to that fame Jefus 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 Effence 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 faid unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles; Men and Brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter, in the Words of the Text, faid unto them-Repent, and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jefus Chrift, for the Remiffion of Sins, and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghoft. You know that Baptifm in the Name of Jefus Chrift implies and includes Faith in that Name. He that Believeth and is Baptized---are fuppos'd Infeparable; the outward and fenfible Act by the Sacramental Laver, being even a Sign and Teftification 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 Baptifm by Water and the Co-operation of the Holy Ghoft. I have in fome former Difcourfes treated of Faith in the All-fufficient Satisfaction for Sins by the Blood of Chrift; and of the Excellency and Efficacy of the great Virtue or Grace of Repentance; Two Acts, which, when rightly Conftituted, I fuppos'd to be in the general Eftimation of Chriftians, as in the Nature of Things they are, Infeparable from each other. But, fince among the many Impious Attempts that have of late been made upon Christianity, One has been to divide thefe Two, Repentance and Faith in the Redemption by Jefus Chrift from each other; or rather to perfwade People, that a |