A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…

Take a Passage of Reverend Perkins, ¹viz. It is objected that true Faith is never alone; I answer, saith he, thus Faith is never alone in the Person justified, nor in Godly Conversation, but is joined with all other Virtues, yet in the act and office of Justification it is alone; the Eye in the Body is not alone, being joined with all other Parts, Hand, Foot, &c. nevertheless the Eye in seeing is alone, for no part of the Body seeth but the Eye.— He shows that Faith alone is the Eye which sees the Object Jesus Christ, and apprehends him and his Righteousness, whose Righteousness only is the material cause of our Justification ⟨p. 40⟩before God. See the Assembly's Confession, &c. All whom God effectually calleth, he freely justifieth, not by infusing Righteousness into them, but by pardoning their Sins, and by accounting and accepting their Persons as righteous, not for any thing wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing Faith it self, the act of believing, nor any other Evangelical Obedience as their Righteousness, but by imputing the Obedience and Satisfaction of Christ unto them; they receiving and resting on him, and his Righteousness by Faith: which Faith they have not of themselves, it is the Gift of God.

Take a Passage of Reverend Perkins, ¹viz. It is objected that true Faith is never alone; I answer, saith he, thus Faith is never alone in the Person justified, nor in Godly Conversation, but is joined with all other Vertues, yet in the act and office of Justification it is alone; the Eye in the Body is not alone, being joined with all other Parts, Hand, Foot, &c. nevertheless the Eye in seeing is alone, for no part of the Body seeth but the Eye.— He shews that Faith alone is the Eye which sees the Object Jesus Christ, and apprehends him and his Righteousness, whose Righteousness only is the material cause of our Justification ⟨p. 40⟩before God. See the Assembly's Confession, &c. All whom God effectually calleth, he freely justifieth, not by infusing Righteousness into them, but by pardoning their Sins, and by accounting and accepting their Persons as righteous, not for any thing wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing Faith it self, the act of believing, nor any other Evangelical Obedience as their Righteousness, but by imputing the Obedience and Satisfaction of Christ unto them; they receiving and resting on him, and his Righteousness by Faith: which Faith they have not of themselves, it is the Gift of God.