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

I have answered this oft and largely in divers Books, and therefore must here be excused from saying any more than this, viz. 1. You must distinguish between Faith Physically taken, and Faith morally taken. 2. Between its formal act and its material.

I. Physically some one natural act, constituted by one Object is called Faith: But morally taken it comprehendeth divers Physical Acts, both of the Intellect and Will: And as it is Justifying and Saving it is so taken: Yea morally it is sometime in Scripture taken largelier, for our Christian Faith, as God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost the Promise, Grace and Glory are all the constituting Objects of it in their truth and goodness; and sometime more narrowly as altogether distinct from Hope and Love; It is taken in the first sense when it is said to be the condition of Justification and Salvation.

And here what you said of the necessity of conjoining the many similitudes which express Christs ⟨p. 93⟩Office to us, when but one of them in a Text is named, the same must be said of Faith in Christ. A Moral act which hath many Physical acts, must be named by some one, the rest being connoted or implied; for it would be uncomely to name them all in every mention of it.

And here what you said of the necessity of conjoyning the many similitudes which express Christs ⟨p. 93⟩Office to us, when but one of them in a Text is named, the same must be said of Faith in Christ. A Moral act which hath many Physical acts, must be named by some one, the rest being connoted or implied; for it would be uncomely to name them all in every mention of it.