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Such is Faith in Christ, when it is made the Condition of Justification and Life. The Formal and Material Acts together constitute Faith, and not the Formal, or one of the Material (Assent) alone. (Nor hath Bishop Downame well confuted Mr. Pemble about the Formal Act.) In a word (true and plain) Baptism, our christening, best tells us the Essence of Justifying Faith: For that is the Sealing to us the •u•••fying Covenant, that it may actually and solemnly deliver to us our part in Christ, and right to Pardon and Life, which is given us on no lower terms, than the Fiducial Assent, Consent and Dedication professed by us essentially in Baptism.

Such is Faith in Christ, when it is made the Condition of Justification and Life. The Formal and Materi•l Acts together constitute Faith, and not the Formal, or one of the Material (Assent) alone. (Nor hath Bishop Downame well confuted Mr. Pemble about the Formal Act.) In a word (true and pl•in) Baptism, our •hristening, best tells us the Essence of Justi•yin• Faith: For that is the Sealing to us the •u•••fying Covenant, that it may actually and solemnly deliver to us our part in Christ, and ri•ht to Pardon and Life, which is given us on no lower terms, than the Fiducial Assent, Consent and Dedication professed by us essentially in Baptism.

§ 10. Your next doubt is about the various Objects of Faith in exercise (Gods Omnipotency, (Truth, &c.) and the various uses of Faith accordingly. ⟨p. 96⟩This is the point which Mr. Lawson and I seemed somewhat to differ about: And I have in my Treatise of Justification said so much of it, that you shall now excuse me from any more than telling you, that in Sanctification, where one act really produceth one effect on our hearts, and another act another effect, each effect must be ascribed to its proper act. But you must not think it is so in our Justification or Adoption, where that which we receive is a RIGHT, Jus impunitatis & vitae, which is not the Immediate Effect of our Act, no nor any Effect of it at all, but of Gods Donative Covenant, of which our Faith is but a Condition, and no Efficient Cause of our Right. And therefore I doubt not still to say, that we are thus justified as much by a Consenting to Christs Teaching and Sanctifying Grace, as by Consenting to be justified by his Righteousness; or by fiducial taking him for our Teacher, Intercessor and King, as taking him for a Satisfier and Meriter for us: Indeed it is undivided Taking Christ as Christ, that is the Justifying Condition,