The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

1. That the Promise maketh Faith a Condition, making unbelief a stop to the benefit, and Faith the removal of that stop, is past all doubt. And the Promise being the Donative Instrument, and its Condition being its Mode, the interest of a Condition is most certainly the formal Law-interest that Faith hath as to our Justification.

2. And Dr. T••ss• 's forementioned name of Causa dispositiva, i, e. recipiendi, is undoubtedly also •pt, and signifieth both the Nature of the Act, and the Office […] as a Condition: For in both respects it is the n•••ssary qualification of the Patient or Receiver, i. e. naturally and legally necessary; such as dispositio materiae is said to be in Physics.

2. And Dr. T••ss• 's forementioned name of Causa dispositiva, i, e. recipiendi, is undoubtedly also •pt, and signifieth both the Nature of the Act, and the Off•ce 〈…〉 as a Condition: For in both respects it is the n•••ssary qualification of the Patient or Re••iver, i. e. naturally and legally necessary; such as dispositio materiae is said to be in Physicks.

3. And as for the notion of an Instrumental Cause of Justification, it is past doubt that properly taken neither Faith, nor any act of ours is any such nor doth justify us efficiently at all: But if any be so fond of the invented notion of an Instrument, as that they will use it, though unaptly, they must say, 1. That it is not an Efficient, but a Recipient Instrument. Dr. Kendall calls it like Boys catching the Ball in their Hats, or as a Spoon is in eating: But it is not an Instrument of Physical Reception, but Moral. To Trust is no more a Reception, than to Love. The active Acceptance of a Saviour given