Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

6. His Kingly Office is a true part of his entire Office of Mediatorship: Now the sincerity of Acts in Moral respects, lieth in their true suitableness to the nature of their Objects: As God is not truly loved, except he be loved entirely: so neither is Christ truly received, if you receive him not entirely. It is a lame, partial Faith, and no true Faith, that taketh Christ only in the Notion of a deliverer ⟨p. 164⟩from guilt and punishment, without any accepting of him, as our Lord and Governor. Though I believe that the hope of being pardoned & saved is the first thing that moveth men to receive Christ, yet do they, being so moved, receive him as their Lord also, or else they do not receive him sincerely.

6. His Kingly Office is a true part of his entire Office of Mediatorship: Now the sincerity of Acts in Morall respects, lyeth in their true suitableness to the nature of their Objects: As God is not truely loved, except he be loved entirely: so neither is Christ truely received, if you receive him not entirely. It is a lame, partiall Faith, and no true Faith, that taketh Christ onely in the Notion of a deliverer ⟨p. 164⟩from guilt and punishment, without any accepting of him, as our Lord and Governour. Though I beleeve that the hope of being pardoned & saved is the first thing that moveth men to receive Christ, yet do they, being so moved, receive him as their Lord also, or else they doe not receive him sincerely.

7. The exalting of his Kingly Office, is as principal an end of his dying, & of his becoming Mediator, as is the saving of us, and the exalting of his Priestly Office. See the second Psal. and Rom. 14. 9. To this end he both dyed, rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead, and the living. And therefore the receiving of him as Priest alone, is not like to be the Condition of our Justification. So that if Christ put both into the Condition, we must not separate what he hath joined. But the main ground of their Error, who think otherwise, is this: They think Acceptance of the mercy offered, doth make it ours immediately in a natural way, as the accepting of a thing from men; And so as if he that accepted pardon, should have it, and he that accepted sanctity should have it, &c. But Christ (as I have showed) establisheth his Offices and Authority, before he bestow his mercies; and though Accepting be the proper condition, yet doth it not confer the title to us, as it is an accepting primarily, but as it is the Covenants Condition: If we should