,1100=111111111111.1MINIMP1111111.1111.111.1 (400) ed with Love. Anfro: The Love of Complacency is one, and the Love of Benevolence another. Love of Complacency is requried in faith to its Objea : Hence (Themnitius on Alelantlhons com- mon places of Idlification,pag. 66c. faith [Faith is filch a know- ledge in the mind,towhich followeth afrent in the will,and a rno- tionof the heart apprehending and applying to it felt with defire and affiance, that objeEt which is manifefted to be good, fo that it refleth in it. ObjeU. But thus faith is confounded with Charity; which two the Holy Ghoft dittinguifbeth fpecially, a Cor. r3. "info?. Charity there is confidered as it is carried to God and our neighbour, but not as it is carried to Chrift as the meritorious caufe, and the benefits by him obtained, and promifed to us in him ; which is the Charity or Love of faith, and is diflingaithed from the former. 1. Becaufe this Love refpeaeth the merit of Chrift and his fatisfaaion, and alto the promifes of God, and retteth in them : But the other Love retpeaech the perfons in re- gard of whom it operateth or aaeth fomewhar. 2. This Love is filch to the promifes made to it, as that of a fick man to his Me- dicine ; but the other Love is as Natural Love is in putting forth the aas of natural life : to is this in producing the as of fpirito- al life, which ads are good works. I hope hereafter I may (after Chamier and cillaccovius) af- firm that faith in Chrift effentially contains Love to Chrift, and that Love to Chrift Iuftifieth, as faith doth, without the terrible charge of afferting an almoft Socinian faith and luftification. Rob. Baro. nius. 38. MHat great Philofopher and Divir e,Rob. Bar-mix; faith fo I much for the dot rine that I am blamed for, in his excel- lent Difp.de Peceato mortaLe- Ven.that 1 know not what paffage alone to cite, and therefore defire the Reader to perufe the whole : fpecially his Append. of the PA-ability of fulfilling the Law of God,confidered according to the Gape! Lenity. His fe- cond Affertion,page 122. is this [ chat Obedience to the Law which the Gofpel or Covenant or grace,requireth of us,as pre- cifely neceffary to Salvation, is poffible tous, by the ordinary helps of Grace. Yea all Gods commands, whether Legal or E- vangelical, one by one may be fulfilled, fo far as they are now propounded by God, as ftrialy and precifely obligative, under pain .11001111.1111111
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