An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 2. Though the word [Belief] in English, and Assent in Latin, signify strictly only the act of the Understanding, and Saving Faith is oft named from one act, yet really that Faith which in Scripture is made the Condition of Pardon and Salvation, doth essentially contain the Acts of every Faculty, even Assent, Consent, and Affiance; ⟨p. 227⟩and [Greek or Hebrew] and fides do properly signify Trust, even a consenting or voluntary Trust upon believing; as is afore said.

§. 2. Though the word [Belief] in English, and Assent in Latin, signifie strictly only the act of the Understanding, and Saving Faith is oft named from one act, yet really that Faith which in Scripture is made the Condition of Pardon and Salvation, doth essentially contain the Acts of every Faculty, even Assent, Consent, and Affiance; ⟨p. 227⟩and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and fides do properly signifie Trust, even a consenting or voluntary Trust upon believing; as is afore said.

§. 3. We do very aptly call both the Act and Object by the same name fides in Latin, (and Faith in English, oft-times): For Faith is a trusting on another's Faith, Fidelity or Trustiness; and so the fides asserentis seu promittentis, & fides credentis, are related.

§. 4. The Faith that hath the promise of our Justification, is not to be called one only Physical act in specie (much less in numero): (That were but profanely to jest with holy things); but it is a moral act or work of the Soul, containing many physical acts. Otherwise we should be all confounded, not knowing how to distinguish of all our physical acts of Faith secundum speciem, and then to know which of them is the right: And it would be but some very little of the true Objects of Faith, that justifying Faith must be constituted by: In a word, the Absurdities are so numerous that would follow, that I will not be so tedious as to name them.