of Faith. r Concerning which I fitid three relied], ifnOt four Opinions among Proteflant Writers. (r.) Some maintain,That theadequateproper SubjeUi of Faith, is the Underflanding only, that the Willis the fecondary Subjetl, in ae much as it isaffeEled by the Underflanding 'tá choofe and imbrace that Good which the Underflanding by Faithfarfl fees to be fa. So ilenvts,:.Effenius in their common Pla- ces, fo likewife Mr. Perkins, and Dr. Baron in his Philofophia 7heologia Ancillans de Fide; Amyrald, and many others efpeciallyofour fir.lt Reformers. (2.) Somemaintain, That however therebe neceffary an antecedent Knowledge of, and Affent untoDivineTruths in the Underflanding; yet that this Affent or Knowledge is not properly that Faith which juflifies, nor any Part thereof; but that the AEof Faith whichjuflifies, is merelyan At of the Will choofing of and adhering to the Goodnefs that is in the Objeil : And they make it to be an Aé of Eleecion of Chrifas the-Mean of Life' and Salvation. So Arnefa'us inhis Me- dulla Theologix. (3.) Some place they Act of juilifying Faith in both -E.1nderflanding and Will, as the adequare Subjects of Faith : So Marefius, Maccoius, and feveral Modern Di- vines. .(4.) And force think, That co Grace is feated in the whole Man inward and outward, fo they think Faith to be feated neither in the Underflanding alone, nor in the Will alone, nor in the Underflanding and Will only ; but likewife in the other Faculties and Powers,.. and Infiru L 4 moats
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