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(390) hominum oculi & fides adfemen hoc facro-fanEtum fsnt direaa. Vim itaque Socinus facit Deo disjungens ab eo conjanaa quod priori loco politom voluit nonfaltem ultimo collocat fed ex &wholly; plane memoria exi- mere & delere conatur. Chaalier. tion of the holy one,andof his death and facrifice, and theex- prefs injunftion , that mens eyes and Faith be directed to this Holy feed. Socinus there. fore doth violence to God, dif- joyning what he hath conjoy- ned,and that which Godwould have put firft , he doth not fo much as let it follow after, but endeavoureth wholly to re- move and blot it out of the memoryof men Though I judge fomeof the exprefsions here fcarce conveni- ent, yet here you may fee the fubftance of what I maintain con- cerning the neceffity of the fubordinate Evangelical Condition, to efcape Juftice and attain the Promife of mercy ; that is, to be juftified , and that Repentance as well as Faith is part of that Condition ; and both called the Inftrument or Organ ; and therefore that he taketh the word Inftrument in a larger fenfe 30. DAn. Chamier Panfirat.Tom. 3. defide. li. 12. C. 4. i6. /mg. (mihi) 3 75 . [ And this is a certain Argu- ment. All Love is an aft of the will. But Faith is love there- fore it is an acci of the Will. The minor is proved : becaufe true Faith is that which credit in `Deism, believeth on God. But to believe on God, is to love God. Auguft. in Pfal. 130. This is to believe on Chrift, to love Chrift. In 7ohan. Traci. 29. What is it to believe on God ? By believing to love, e:q.c.] (Thus it appeareth that Faith in Chrift love toChrift in Chamiers judgement : and therefore love juftifieth : and I {hew- ed before that Calvin makesfperare , hoping, to be juftifying Faith. (and fo do many others) and fo Love andHope muffin- ftifie according to-them.) Et lib. 15. 4.. Sea. 27,28. pag.51 8. [ Conditions in Con- traas or Covenant, we obferve are of two kinds, which I think gMat none. good to diftinguifh by names, though perhaps lefs proper* ; force

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