( 399) means, yea a perfeCtly fufficient means to make the Sodar and the Vnion between God and man, and to bring a man to the pof- fillion andfroition of God(for this comprehends the whole man) fo that the whole man is poffeffed ofGod,and inflamed by God, when his underflanding knows him, and feeth the excellency that is in him, and when the Affections of his heart cleave to him, and clofe with the molt foveraign Affe&ions of fear and love, and then when all his whole man is at the command of this, &c. Iiitrocluel. toD page 3o. [The parts are, Faith appre- henGve, and Love /Naive : [hole truttF are moil properly funda- mental, withouc which we cannot be made partakers of Chrift, nor be enabled to do that by which we may be made partakers of God in him, and fo the fum of all is faith and love which is in Chr:ft jefus.] Right.Mans Plea, Serm. 5. p.74 [In one word,the fumof all will be this.Ifhe do embrace Chrift (andGod in Chrift)asChritt is offered him in the Gofpel, and refigns himfelf to the regiment an government ofChrift, and cloth fo etteem and prize him,that he counts all as drofs and dung in comparifon of him, and can leave father and mother,and forfake all to follow him] See alfo Serm 6. p.47. If any fay, that all this mentions not jutlification. I anfw, It mentions our uniting to God, and the true flare of a gracious foul, and the true nature of laving faith, and the means of our participation of a [late of Happinefs ; and Chews that Faith hath many aas, and that faith in Chrift containeth Loving Chrift, as one of its principal ads. But the main thing that I intend, is, that all this being at leaft conditions ofour falvation, they mutt needs be conditions.of our Juttification at Iudgement. For I have yet met withno man, that by a denyal would put me to prove, that whatfoever is the condition of falvation on our parts, is alfo the condition of that final fentential Abfolution. 37.M.Accoviss, (though he hold much of Antinomian tic= macoviur: ,6frine) yet makes Love effential toFaith, as Chamier doth, and fo mutt give as much to that in 'Jollification as I. Colles. Diana. de Iaftific. Difp. 14. §. 10, I I, IZ,13. [Bet (faithCame- ra) thusTobelieve will be to Will, and fo faith mull be confound- - ed
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