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The integrity of it is to believe all that we find revealed. The Office of it as the Means of Justification, is to be the condition of the Justifying Covenant or Law. That which some call the Instrumentality, is the very nature of the Act, the [Greek or Hebrew] credere in specie: Believing in Christ is the [Greek or Hebrew] credere, and that's it that they call an Instrument of receiving him as such. But the [Greek or Hebrew] credere even in specie, Faith in Christ, doth not justify quâ talis, as that Faith, but as it is that qualifying Condition which the Promise annexeth Justification to; without which it ⟨p. 44⟩would not have done it. Had the Promise been absolute, it had pardoned us before, and without Faith. The nature of the Act is like the metal of Gold or Silver, and the tenor of the Justifying Covenant is as the Kings Stamp, that maketh it currant Coin. It is Faith in order of nature before it is the Justifying Condition.

The integrity of it is to believe all that we find revealed. The Office of it as the Means of Justification, is to be the condition of the Justifying Covenant or Law. That which some call the Instrumentality, is the very nature of the Act, the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 credere in specie: Believing in Christ is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 credere, and that's it that they call an Instrument of receiving him as such. But the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 credere even in specie, Faith in Christ, doth not justifie quâ talis, as that Faith, but as it is that qualifying Condition which the Promise annexeth Justification to; without which it ⟨p. 44⟩would not have done it. Had the Promise been absolute, it had pardoned us before, and without Faith. The nature of the Act is like the metal of Gold or Silver, and the tenor of the Justifying Covenant is as the Kings Stamp, that maketh it currant Coin. It is Faith in order of nature before it is the Justifying Condition.