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3. That it is therefore an improper and unfit phrase to say, that [Christ Died to purchase us Faith] though rightly explained it hath truth in it: But rather, that [Faith is an effect or fruit of Christ's Death,] viz. where Faith is given. For the former phrase would intimate as if Faith were the thing that God was to give in requital of Christ for his Bloodshed, and that directly: and so Faith should be given by God as Legislator of the Old Law: For the stipulation supposed to be between the Father and Son, was made by the Father on his part, not as Redeemer, or Legislator of the New Law; but as the offended Rector according to the Law of Creation, now treating with the Mediator about mans Recovery. Though these things spoken after our manner, do but signify Gods Decrees, yet they show us in what Relation God stood towards Man and towards the Redeemer, when he required and accepted of Satisfaction. Whereas the thing given to Christ was Power of Dominion and Rectorship, and so the Redeemed delivered to him (not all to one final end, nor with a like intent.) And so Faith is procured by Christ only in this remote sense, in that he procured full power to use ⟨p. 431⟩the fittest means to draw men to him, in the season and degrees he please; with a full resolution in his own mind to make all this effectual upon his chosen, that he might attain the full end of his Blood-shed. So that Faith is the effect of that degree of Grace which from his Plenipotency he gives, lest his chosen should miss of the intended Salvation; and therefore is improperly said to be purchased by Christs Blood, though yet it be a remote effect of his Blood to those that have it, and none could have had it without the Intervention of his Blood, because there would have been no saving use of Faith without that Blood: otherwise they might, if we look to Faith, but as such an act considered without its object given.

3. That it is therefore an improper and unfit phrase to say, that [Christ Died to purchase us Faith] though rightly explained it hath truth in it: But rather, that [Faith is an effect or fruit of Christ's Death,] viz. where Faith is given. For the former phrase would intimate as if Faith were the thing that God was to give in requital of Christ for his Bloodshed, and that directly: and so Faith should be given by God as Legislator of the Old Law: For the stipulation supposed to be between the Father and Son, was made by the Father on his part, not as Redeemer, or Legislator of the New Law; but as the offended Rector according to the Law of Creation, now treating with the Mediator about mans Recovery. Though these things spoken after our manner, do but signifie Gods Decrees, yet they shew us in what Relation God stood towards Man and towards the Redeemer, when he required and accepted of Satisfaction. Whereas the thing given to Christ was Power of Dominion and Rectorship, and so the Redeemed delivered to him (not all to one final end, nor with a like intent.) And so Faith is procured by Christ only in this remote sense, in that he procured full power to use