An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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.

§. 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 prophanely 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.

§. 5. Saving Faith is such a moral work as we use to express by the names, Believing, Trusting, Consenting, Taking, Accepting, Receiving, in Contracts personal with men. If we say [You shall Trust such a Physician, or take such a man for your Physician] all men understand us, and none is so logically mad, as to think that by Taking or Trusting we mean only some one physical act of the smallest distribution. If we say [I take this man for my King, my Master, my Commander or Captain, or this woman to be my Wife, &c.] every one knoweth here what Taking meaneth: viz. our Consent to ⟨p. 228⟩that Relation, according to the nature and ends of it.