113. This distinction is founded in another falsehood supposed, which is that the effects of all Christ's saving works are as distinctly to be ascribed to several Receiving Acts of faith, as they are to the several procuri• acts of Christ, the object of faith, which is another corrupting addition to God's Word. One part of the work of our Salvation was done by Christ's humiliation, and another by him in his exaltation: one by his overcoming the Devil, and another by his overcoming the World; one by his Cross, another by his Grave, another by his Resurrection, another by his ascension, another by his making the new Covenant, another by his sending the Spirit, another by his sending the Apostles, another by his intercession in Heaven, another will be done by our Resurrection, and another by his last Judgment, and our Glorification; one by hi• as an obeying-subject, another as a Sacrifice for sin, many by him as a Pr• phet, many as a Priest and many as a King and Judge: But to say therefore that our acts of faith as Receptive have as various respects to the effects or benefits, and that we are justified by him only as we believe i• him as Righteous, or a Justifier, and that we are adopted as we believe in him in another respect, and sanctified as we believe in hi• in another respect, &c. these are the dreams of corrupting curiosity. For that Christ who by all these several works, hath done all the office of a Redeemer to procure these several effects, is preached and offered to us to be entirely as such a Redeemer, believed in and received, and upon the condition of such an entire faith only, Christ and all these benefits conjunctly are by one Covenant given us, and no otherwise. And believing in Christ as Christ, who by all those acts hath himself procured us this Covenant, and these gifts, is that by which we are justified as it is one undivided faith; And the quatenus here as to Christ's own procurement of the effects hath its place, but as to the Act of our faith, and Christ as the object constituting that faith, there is no such diversity or order to be feigned, as if the several effects were accordingly to be ascribed to our several Believings or Receiving acts.
113. This distinction is founded in another falshood supposed, which is that the effects of all Christ's saving works are as distinctly to be ascribed to several Receiving Acts of faith, as they are to the several procuri• acts of Christ, the object of faith, which is another corrupting additio• to God's Word. One part of the work of our Salvation was done by Christ's humiliation, and another by him in his exaltation: one by his overcoming the Devil, and another by his overcoming the World; one by his Cross, another by his Grave, another by his Resurrection, another by his ascension, another by his making the new Covenant, another by his sending the Spirit, another by his sending the Apostles, another by his intercession in Heaven, another will be done by our Resurrection, and another by his last Judgment, and our Glorification; one by hi• as an obeying-subject, another as a Sacrifice for sin, many by him as a Pr• phet, many as a Priest and many as a King and Judge: But to say therefore that our acts of faith as Receptive have as various respects to the effects or benefits, and that we are justified by him only as we believe i• him as Righteous, or a Justifyer, and that we are adopted as we believe in him in another respect, and sanctifyed as we believe in hi• in another respect, &c. these are the dreams of corrupting curiosity. For that Christ who by all these several works, hath done all the office of a Redeemer to procure these several effects, is preached and offered to us to be entirely as such a Redeemer, believed in and received, and upon the condition of such an entire faith only, Christ and all these benefits conjunctly are by one Covenant given us, and no otherwise. And believing in Christ as Christ, who by all those acts hath himself procured us this Covenant, and these gifts, is that by which we are justified as it is one undivided faith; And the quatenus here as to Christ's own procurement of the effects hath its place, but as to the Act of our faith, and Christ as the object constituting that faith, there is no such diversity or order to be feigned, as if the several effects were accordingly to be ascribed to our several Believings or Receiving acts.
