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

But qua Justificat fallaciously implieth that Faith Efficiently Justifieth, whereas it is only a Dispositio Moralis Receptiva as a Condition (and they deny its constitutive Causality) and that (Fides qua Fides, Justifieth at all) and as a dispositive Condition, it is a belief in much more than Christs Imputed Righteousness. LVIII. And these ill dividing men, pretending to subtlety, telling us, that it is but one Act of Faith by which it justifieth, are so far from being able to tell what that one Act is, That, it is enough ⟨p. 21⟩to cast all their Disciples into despair, if, till they know it, they must not know that they are justified. LIX. For they feign it to be one only Physical Act, whereas, in Moral Subjects, an Act containeth many Physical Acts: Faith in Christ is a Covenanting Act, like a contract of Marriage, or between Prince and Subjects, or Captain and Soldiers, which is many Physical Acts. LX. Hereupon they are at a loss in what faculty it is, whether the Intellects Assent, or the Wills Consent, or Affiance or Practical Obedience; and whether it be one Act only •am•ro, or only specie, and what individuates an Act? LXI. And they unavoidably cast men upon their supposed justification by works, while they feign all Acts, save that one (they know not what) to be Works: Yea, many take every Act to be Works, as is aforesaid. As when they say, that it is only resting on Christs Righteousness, as made ours in it self by imputation; they hereby make the Belief of the Godhead, and of the truth of the Gospel, and of the Life to come, and Repentance, and Confessions, and Love to God and to Christ, and Thankfulness, and Prayer, and Self-denial, to be all works of the Law, which Free Grace in this excludeth. If Assent be that one Justifying Act, then he that thinketh it is Consent, or Hope, or Trust; or that denying his own Righteousness is any part of it, is fallen from Grace, by looking for Justification by Works. LXII. They do not only say, that Grace is not free, if it have any positive Condition, but also if it have any negative Condition; that is, that if a pardon be offered a Traitor, on Condition that ⟨p. 22⟩he will not refuse it, cast it in the fire, and spit in the Face of him that offereth it, or will not seek his Death: this is no free pardon, unless he may have leave to hate and stab the Prince that pardoneth him. And here you see what these take for Works;