As I said before, Veracity is Gods Goodness, and Veracity is the formal Object in every one of the other Acts about the material Object; and therefore the Will must act upon Veracity, and so have a part in assent it self: not as assent, but as a Voluntary assent, and as an assent to Promises or Revelations of good to us. There is goodness in the word of Revelation subordinate, or in order to the good Revealed. And so there is an act of the Will upon the good in the Word, complicated with the Intellects Assent, besides the following fuller act of the Will, upon Christ and the benefits themselves. And therefore there is a twofold Affiance. 1. An Affiance in Gods Veracity as the Revealer. 2. An Affiance in Christ the Mediator, as the bestower, accomplisher and actual Saviour or Deliverer according to his Office and Covenant. The first is an act of the Will concurring with Assent. And of this Pembles opinion is near Truth, though not fully it. For here Affiance is as closely joined with Assent as Heat in the Sun with Light, though they are not the same, But then the second sort of Affiance followeth Assent, and hath another act of the Will interceding, which is Consent or acceptance of the Benefit offered; which also is closely conjunct with the first act of the Will. And then followeth last of all affiance in Christ for the performance of the undertaken acts. And these latter are also many particular Physical acts, as the objects in specie specialissima are many. And yet all these make but one object in a moral sense, and so but one act, and are done in a few moments of time▪ of which after. Would it not be too tedious, I should stay to cite several Texts, to prove that never a one of all these acts is excluded as works by Paul. But of divers of them its before proved from Rom. 3. and 4. and of more in Heb. 11. and in Gal. 3.1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22. There are at least these Objects of Justifying faith expressed. 1. Christs Person, 2. that ⟨p. 412⟩he was seed promised. 3. That he was crucified. 4. That this was for our sins. 5. That he was made a curse for us in this his death. 6. That hereby he Redeemed us from the curse. 7. That he is the Mediator. 8. God as the Party with whom he is Mediator. 9. God as Believed in his Promise. 10. God as Justifier. 11. The Gospel preached, and he Promise made. 12. Blessedness by Christ. 13.
As I said before, Veracity is Gods Goodness, and Veracity is the formal Object in every one of the other Acts about the material Object; and therefore the Will must act upon Veracity, and so have a part in assent it self: not as assent, but as a Voluntary assent, and as an assent to Promises or Revelations of good to us. There is goodness in the word of Revelation subordinate, or in order to the good Revealed. And so there is an act of the Will upon the good in the Word, complicated with the Intellects Assent, besides the following fuller act of the Will, upon Christ and the benefits themselves. And therefore there is a twofold Affiance. 1. An Affiance in Gods Veracity as the Revealer. 2. An Affiance in Christ the Mediator, as the bestower, accomplisher and actual Saviour or Deliverer according to his Office and Covenant. The first is an act of the Will concurring with Assent. And of this Pembles opinion is neer Truth, though not fully it. For here Affiance is as closely joyned with Assent as Heat in the Sun with Light, though they are not the same, But then the second sort of Affiance followeth Assent, and hath another act of the Will interceding, which is Consent or acceptance of the Benefit offered; which also is closely conjunct with the first act of the Will. And then followeth last of all affiance in Christ for the performance of the undertaken acts. And these latter are also many particular Physical acts, as the objects in specie specialissima are many. And yet all these make but one object in a moral sense, and so but one act, and are done in a few moments of time▪ of which after. Would it not be too tedious, I should stay to cite several Texts, to prove that never a one of all these acts is excluded as works by Paul. But of divers of them its before proved from Rom. 3. and 4. and of more in Heb. 11. and in Gal. 3.1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22. There are at least these Objects of Justifying faith expressed. 1. Christs Person, 2. that ⟨p. 412⟩he was seed promised. 3. That he was crucified. 4. That this was for our sins. 5. That he was made a curse for us in this his death. 6. That hereby he Redeemed us from the curse. 7. That he is the Mediator. 8. God as the Party with whom he is Mediator. 9. God as Believed in his Promise. 10. God as Justifier. 11. The Gospel preached, and he Promise made. 12. Blessedness by Christ. 13.
