The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Christ indeed is a Fountain, but he is a Fountain sealed up: He is a Treasure, but he is a Treasure locked up to an unbelieving heart. Faith is the Key that unlocks this Treasure, opening the Treasuries of Heaven, making an inlet of all the Glory of Christ. Faith gives the soul communion with all the Riches of Christ. So far as it is possible for Christ to be communicated; he is made ours by Faith; ⟨p. 109⟩by it there is a conveyance made of all the great revenues of Christ. The great stock, which Christ did purchase by his Blood, is passed over to the believing soul. There is a Deed of Gift made to such; wherein I say, Not the whole Righteousness of the Mediator; ¹his essential and incommunicable Righteousness: but his whole Mediatory Righteousness; that Righteousness which Christ purchased for us as Mediator, the Righteousness of his active and passive obedience; by the one doing our services, by the other bearing our scourges; by the one as was said before, answering Gods commanding Justice, by the other answering Gods condemning Justice: the one in Praemium, to free us from wrath: the other in Pretium, to entitle us to Glory: all this is made ours.

Christ indeed is a Fountain, but hee is a Fountain sealed up: Hee is a Treasure, but hee is a Treasure lockt up to an unbeleeving heart. Faith is the Key that unlocks this Treasure, opening the Treasuries of Heaven, making an inlet of all the Glory of Christ. Faith gives the soul communion with all the Riches of Christ. So far as it is possible for Christ to bee communicated; hee is made ours by Faith; ⟨p. 109⟩by it there is a conveyance made of all the great revenues of Christ. The great stock, which Christ did purchase by his Blood, is passed over to the beleeving soul. There is a Deed of Gift made to such; wherein I say, Not the whole Righteousness of the Mediator; ¹his essentiall and incommunicable Righteousness: but his whole Mediatory Righteousness; that Righteousness which Christ purchased for us as Mediator, the Righteousness of his active and passive obedience; by the one doing our services, by the other bearing our scourges; by the one as was said before, answering Gods commanding Justice, by the other answering Gods condemning Justice: the one in Praemium, to free us from wrath: the other in Pretium, to intitle us to Glory: all this is made ours.