8. And if you will speak improperly, and call faith as it is the performed-condition [instrumentum Receptionis] it is not therefore instrumentum Justificationis: In a few words, thi• is the sum: 1. Faith is an Ethical, Metaphorical reception of Christ. 2. If any will speak so improperly as to call this, The instrument of this Ethical reception; I will not contend with him. 3. This Ethical reception Active, is constituted by Christs Testament, the condition of Passive proper reception of Right to Christ, and with him to his Benefits. Faith must first be faith, i. e. apprehensio Christi, in order of nature before it can be the condition of Right. 4. It justifies therefore quâ conditio, and not quâ fides in Christum: or as they improperly speak, quâ instrumentum Christum apprehendens. 5. If any will take the word Instrument so improperly and largely, as to comprehend the condition, then you may so further say, [Faith is not only the instrument of Active reception, but of true Passive reception of Right to Christ, and so of receiving Justification.] 6. But this is quâ conditio pr•stita, and not qua apprehensio Christi. 7. And therefore every act that is part of this condition, may so be called, instrumentum recipiendi. 8. And if it were, as they would have it, that faith is the instrument eo nomine quia Christum apprehendit, then every grace that apprehendeth Christ must be the instrument too: And doubtless Knowledge, Love, Hope, Delight, &c. do apprehend, or receive Christ in some sort▪ and have him for their object. 9. Though I will not contend with him that will say, [Fides non quà fides, sed quà c•nditio praestita, est instrumentum morale recipiendi jus ad Christum & justi•iam ab ipso promeritam.] Yet (as I think he layeth a snare for himself and others, in turning the plain and proper term [Condition] into an improper term [instrumentum Recipiendi,] so) I think it not to be endured that therefore faith or any act of man, should be called the instrument of Justification. For though you may in a strained speech say, that Receptio moralis activa being made the medium or condition Receptionis physicae passivae, may therefore •e called instrumentum recipiendi, and Credere vel acceptare said to be moraliter vel reputativè pati;
8. And if you will speak improperly, and call faith as it is the performed-condition [instrumentum Receptionis] it is not therefore instrumentum Justificationis: In a few words, thi• is the summe: 1. Faith is an Ethical, Metaphorical reception of Christ. 2. If any will speak so improperly as to call this, The instrument of this Ethical reception; I will not contend with him. 3. This Ethical reception Active, is constituted by Christs Testament, the condition of Passive proper reception of Right to Christ, and with him to his Benefits. Faith must first be faith, i. e. apprehensio Christi, in order of nature before it can be the condition of Right. 4. It justifies therefore quâ conditio, and not quâ fides in Christum: or as they improperly speak, quâ instrumentum Christum apprehendens. 5. If any will take the word Instrument so improperly and largely, as to comprehend the condition, then you may so further say, [Faith is not only the instrument of Active reception, but of true Passive reception of Right to Christ, and so of receiving Justification.] 6. But this is quâ conditio pr•stita, and not qua apprehensio Christi. 7. And therefore every act that is part of this condition, may so be called, instrumentum recipiendi. 8. And if it were, as they would have it, that faith is the instrument eo nomine quia Christum apprehendit, then every grace that apprehendeth Christ must be the instrument too: And doubtless Knowledge, Love, Hope, Delight, &c. do apprehend, or receive Christ in some sort▪ and have him for their object. 9. Though I will not contend with him that will say, [Fides non quà fides, sed quà c•nditio praestita, est instrumentum morale recipiendi jus ad Christum & justi•iam ab ipso promeritam.] Yet (as I think he laieth a snare for himself and others, in turning the plain and proper term [Condition] into an improper term [instrumentum Recipiendi,] so) I think it not to be endured that therefore faith or any act of man, should be called the instrument of Justification. For though you may in a strained speech say, that Receptio moralis activa being made the medium or condition Receptionis physicae passivae, may therefore •e called instrumentum recipiendi, and Credere vel acceptare said to be moraliter vel reputativè pati;
