The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

The third thing is Recumbency. The soul having given its consent that the match should be made up, and done it out of choice, now it casts it self upon Christ as a man that casts himself upon the stream to swim, it makes an holy adventure, it clasps about Christ, and saith, My Lord, my Jesus, which is as it were the joining of hands. This Act of Recumbency is sometimes in Scripture called a coming to Christ^*, sometimes a leaning ⟨p. 240⟩upon Christ^*. This is that faith which justifies.

The third thing is Recumbency. The soul having given its consent that the match should be made up, and done it out of choice, now it casts it selfe upon Christ as a man that casts himselfe upon the stream to swim, it makes an holy adventure, it clasps about Christ, and saith, My Lord, my Jesus, which is as it were the joyning of hands. This Act of Recumbency is sometimes in Scripture call'd a coming to Christ^*, sometimes a leaning ⟨p. 240⟩upon Christ^*. This is that faith which justifies.

1. *Joh. 6, 37
2. *Cant. 8.5

Now concerning this faith, I shall lay down two Rules. 1. That faith justifies not as a formal cause, but purely as an instrument, viz. as it lays hold on Christ the blessed object, and fetcheth in his fullness: and in this sense it is called a precious faith