hast, and come and follow me_: which relates to faith. And by that which is said: _The just shall live by faith_; not every man, but the _just_; for _justice_ is the same disposition of will which _repentance and obedience_ are. And by the words of St. Mark (i. 15): _The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the gospel_; by which words is not obscurely signified, that there is no need of other virtues for our entrance into the kingdom of God, excepting those of _repentance and faith_. The obedience therefore which is _necessarily_ required to salvation, is nothing else but _the will_ or _endeavour_ to obey; that is to say, of doing according to the laws of God; that is, the moral laws, which are the same to all men, and the civil laws; that is to say, the commands of sovereigns in _temporal_ matters, and the ecclesiastical laws in _spiritual_. Which two kinds of laws are divers in divers cities and Churches, and are known by their promulgation and public sentences. [Sidenote: What faith is, and how distinguished from profession, from science, and from opinion.] 4. That we may understand what the _Christian faith_ is, we must define _faith_ in general; and distinguish it from those other acts of the mind, wherewith commonly it is confounded. The object of _faith_ universally taken, namely, _for that which is believed_, is evermore a _proposition_, that is to say, a speech affirmative or negative, which we grant to be true. But because propositions are granted for divers causes, it falls out that these kind of concessions are diversely called. But we grant propositions sometimes, which notwithstanding we receive not into our minds; and this either for a time, to wit, so long, till by consideration of the consequences we have well examined the truth of them, which we call _supposing_; or also simply, as through fear of the laws, which is to _profess_, or _confess_ by outward tokens; or for a voluntary compliance sake, which men use out of civility to those whom they respect, and for love of peace to others, which is _absolute yielding_. Now the propositions which we receive for truth, we always grant for some reasons of our own; and these are derived either from the _proposition itself_, or from the _person propounding_. They are derived from the _proposition itself_, by calling to mind what things those words, which make up the proposition, do by common consent usually signify. If so, then the assent which we give, is called _knowledge_ or _science_. But if we cannot remember what is certainly understood by those words, but sometimes one thing, sometimes another seem to be apprehended by us, then we are said to think. For example, if it be propounded that _two and three make five_; and by calling to mind, that the order of numeral words is so appointed by the common consent of them who are of the same language with us, (as it were, by a certain contract