Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

First, I must explain what this resignation is in general: It is no other then a surrender of the soul to God according to the terms of the Covenant. God hath chalked out in the word a method of salvation, and man resigns up his soul to God in his own way. God says to man, if ever thou art saved ⟨p. 80⟩it must be through the Mediator Jesus Christ, his blood must wash out thy sins, his righteousness must answer the Law for thee. Content, saith the soul, I resign up my self to the Mediator, I lean my self upon his blood and righteousness for pardon and acceptance with thee. Among Anselms interrogatories to be proposed unto men lying, in extremis at the point of death, one which the Minister offers to the sick man is, doest thou believe that thou canst not be saved but by Christs death, unto which when the sick man answers, yea, I so believe, the Minister is appointed to speak to him thus, Age, dumb superest in te anima, in hâc solâ morte siduciam tuam constitue, in nullâ aliâ re siduciam babe, buic morti te totum commit, bâc solâ te totum contege, totum immisee, totum involve; Whilst there is any breath in thee, place all thy confidence in his death, and in nothing else, commit thy whole self to it, cover and intermingle, and involve thy whole self in it; this conference I have set down, because it doth emphatically express this act of resignation. God says further, my Christ must not, cannot, be divided, if he save thee as a Priest, he must teach thee as a Prophet, and rule over thee as a King, for I have made him all these. Content, saith the soul, his blood is not, cannot be spiritless; I give up my self to his holy spirit to be taught and ruled: I desire to say with Baldassar the German Divine, Veniat, veniat verbum Domini, & submittemus illi, sexcenta si nobis essent colla; Let the word of the Lord Christ come, let it come teaching and ruling, and I desire to submit to it, even six hundred