and Moral Works. 7 is meetly Pave , or the Relation of the Patient as fuch to the Ad and Agent. And this is twofold, t. The Receptionof a real being; and fo to befaathJied. is toReceive Sanctification. 2. The Receptionofa Rela- tion, fuch as all pus, Right to a thing is; and foto be pardoned, ju.fiifiëd and adopted, and to Receive pardon, ju,flification andadoption, is all one. 2.Sometimes it fignifyethMoral or Civilreceiving, which is nothing but I. The confent of the mind, called Acceptance. 2. And as .to corporeal obje&s, fometime; the voluntary as of the body; as the Hand, taking that which is offered. Now if theReceiving in queftion were phyfical, (either rei veljute ad rem) then indeed it would be fo neerly related to the thing received, (which as received is no objea, becaufe Receiving fo isno ad) as that this quatenua in queftion might beapplyed to it. For it may well be Paid I receive yufliflcation quatenua yufificatua fain, as I anwér owtá Mriaroe am juftified, and I receive Sanïtification as I am fantlified, and vice verfa, inhis vacche,,Tbeo- for they arebut various words fignifyingthe fame,thing. But ofMoral faia zgzinit me on ,his point. Of Receiving the cafe is otherwife : For this is not phyfical Reception, but which fee fultyer my only a Moral Aíl, which is made a neceffàrymedium, or Condition to Phy- my Dte. Mr. s of nrr in fcal Reception, and thence is called Receiving; fo AcceptingorConfenting cation. is a moral meansor condition of that Having or Poffeffng which is con- fcquential. And this Acceptancebath relation immediately to the thing ás Givenonly, to bemade ours, according to the Will of the Giver , and not made aura according to the order ofthe things given : That is, t. The Ratio proprietatis, the Reafon that they are ours is the will of theDonor, and the Collation is according to the order of his Will; though the Things Given havetheir intrinfick difference. r r 5. All men confefs , that this Moral Reception, is an Ad, and therefore bath an objeli (whichPhy ical Reception is not). And that thus to Receive dothfuppofe a Moral Gift, whichGift maketh not the thing ours neceffarily, as phyfical operation doth, but on fuppofition of our voluntary Reception or Confent. And all confefs that Gods Donatiön is by his Covenant, Teftament or Promife 5 and this Covenant bath its proper nature and mode, that is, the Condition ce impofed, antecedent to our Receiving. Therefore as the thing Given is made ours by the Donation, fo according to theorder appointed by it : and our Confent no otherwife maketh it ours thanas the Condition of the Gift performed. But Gods Covenant dothGive us Chrifl and Life; that is, Juftification, Sanctification and Glorification in tithe or right, in one Gift, to be Ac- cepted by one entire faith as the Condition, not making at all the order of the Gifts and faiths refpef to themin that order, to be any of theRatio proprietatis. i r 6. This will be plainer by humane inftances. AServants Relation is founded in his confent tobe a servant; a Wifes Relation is founded in her Marriage - confent to be a Wife, and to take that man for her Hus- band fimply without any more adoe. Now if the Matter ofthat Ser- vant, or the Husbandof that Wife, be a nobleman, a richman, a wife man, a good man, and they knew all this, and by knowing it were in- duced to confent, and are tohave their proportionable benefits by his Nobility, Riches, Wifdom, Goodnefs, yet their title to thefe benefits arifeth not from the act of their confent as it refpeâed thefe benefits fe- verally anddiftinecly, but meerly by confent to their Relation, as being his Condition of Collation. The Wife is made Noble by her Husbands Nobility , fhe is made Rich by hisRiches, the is inlfrue ed by his Wif- dom, &c. But (he path nomore Right to his Riches for marryinghim in the notion ofRich, or for confenting to him for Richer, than for mar- I rying
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