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The Faith by which we are justified, is one Moral act containing many Physical acts, even our fiducial Consent to the Baptismal Covenant, and dedication of our selves to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to be our Reconciled God, our Saviour, and our Sanctifier, to give us Pardon, Adoption▪ Holiness and Glory, which is our Christianity it self as such.

Contr. 18. But though this be the Faith quae justificat, which justifieth us, is it not only Recumbency on Christs Imputed Righteousness, qu• talis, which hath the Office of Instrumentality, and is •ides qu• justificans.

Ans. Such quibbling and jingling of a mere sound of words is usual in ludicrous Disputations of Lads: But it's pity it should pass as the last remedy against plain truth in so great a matter. First it must be remembered that no Faith justifieth efficiently, and therefore neither quae nor quâ justificans is to signify any such thing, but a mere Moral qualification of the recipient subject; so that to be justified by Faith, is but to be justified by it as that which God hath promised Justification on as the qualifying Condition: But if it be not the same thing that is here called Fides quae and quâ, but in the first part they speak of the Habit, and in the second of the Act, had it not been plainer to say, [The same Habit of Faith hath several Acts, as believing in God, in Christs Intercession, Kingdom, &c. but none of these Acts do justify us, but one only; viz. trusting to the Imputation of his Righteousness?] And so both the quae and quâ is denied to all Acts save that one. This is their plain meaning, which is denied to be truth, and is a human dangerous invention. Yet it's granted them, that it is not every ⟨p. 43⟩