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To receive Justification, Sanctification, Adoption Physically, is nothing but Justificari, Sanctificari, &c. to be Justified, Sanctified, Adopted: But to receive Morally, is Accipere, to accept the gift by consent, and exercise that consent by contract, and containeth (as is aforesaid) many Physical Acts; as to receive a Tutor, a Master, a Physician, a King, a Husband, &c. And such is Faith, a receiving (not of righteousness only) but of Christ with all his offered benefits. And when they say, that other Acts or Graces may be Conditions, but none but Faith is the Instrument; 1. Certainly that called by them Instrumentality, is but the [Greek or Hebrew] creder• ; the Act it self in specie, and the Conditionality is the nearest reason of its Interest in our Justification. 2. And there is nothing more in the Nature of Assent, Trust, or any Act of Faith, be••des mere Acceptance or Consent, why they should be called Receiving, than in Love, ⟨p. 24⟩Desire, Gladness, Hope, or Seeking. 3. And Accepting Christ as our Teacher, King, and Intercessor in Heaven, is as much conditional and necessary to our Justification and Salvation, as accepting his Justification and Deliverance from Punishment. That which men are most averse to (Love, Holiness, and Obedience) is made the Condition of that which men more easily accept. And indeed those that (in sensu Phy•ice) they call Other Conditional Acts, are but modifications, or parts of the same Moral Act which is the Condition. The Faith by which we are justified, is that true Christianity which includeth our believing consent to God the Father, Son, and Holy-Ghost; our belief of Christ, and our thankful acceptance of him to be our Teacher, Intercessor or Priest, and King, with his offered Grace; and that this acceptance is with Desire, Love, and Hope, expressed in a holy Contract or Covenant. This is the Souls Marriage with Christ, and Allegiance to him, and it includeth the renouncing our trust in all Creatures, or in any Righteousness of our own, so far as they would usurp the least part of Christ's Office. Work, or Honour. None of all this is Justification by Works. LXIV. They erroneously tell us, That nothing is Properly a Condition, which is it self a Free Gift. As if God could not Command and Give the same thing, and make his Command a congruous means of Giving. LXV.

To receive Justification, Sanctification, Adoptin Physically, is nothing but Justificari, Sanctificari, &c. to be Justifed, Sanctified, Adopted: But to receive Morally, is Accipere, to accept the gift by consent, and exercise tht consent by contract, and containeth (as is aoresaid) many Physical Acts; as to receive a Tutor, a Master, a Physitian, a King, a Husband, &c. And such is Faith, a receiving (not of righteousness only) but of Christ with all his offered benefits. And when they say, that other Acts or Graces may be Conditios, but none but Faith is the Instrument; 1. Certainly that called by them Instrumentality, is but the creder ; the Act it self in specie, and the Conditionality is the nearest reason of its Interest in our Justification. 2. And there is nothing more in the Nature of Assent, Trust, or any Act of Faith, bedes meer Acceptance or Consent, why they should be called Receiving, than in Love,