Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

A 3. i (34) become the Sons of God, and Jhall have Right to life. 10. This Faith is called One off in a Moral fince, as taking a man to be my Prince, myTeacher, my Mager, to be a Hail- bandla Phyfitian,&v. and not in a `Pbyical fenft for fo it is mangeFts : and that both,T . As diverfted by the faculties of the foul which believeth (and fo it is he Vndergandings A(fent, 2. The wills Content, with that Affiance which is an aa- of the eriffeEtion) 2. And as thefe affs are di7.erfifyedfrom the divers ObieEl-s,and formal Reafons of the objeff s : Andfofor the affent- ingpart, the formal Objea is the Veracity of God, the Material Objea is both theVerity of the Ennunciation, and alfo the Nara- ralVerityof the Things contained therein, which are more then Akt.s. 37. one. The Principal are I. Chrift himfelf, and that confideredin licb.11.1. his Nature,as Godand as man, and in his office as Mediator, and fo as King, Priefl, Prophet and in the exercife of thefe , as One 1011.1.11. that bath been born , lived perfeElly dyed innocently , fatisfied, Co1.1.6. 1 1011.5.1o, rivenagain, and is now afcendedand in glory, Reigning and Inter- 1,1 2. ceding. 2.The Endof his Redemption, viz, our final bleffednefs Rev. z 2,./7. in the unfeen Glory, and our pardon and fanaification as themay 1-kb. It o.z?.., and beginning. It is more then one Axiome or Ennainciation, and 10114.24. more then one Benefit and Matter contained=which wemutt be- lieve, which cannot be done with one Phyfical At of the Intellea 2. eAllo the Objea of the will is more then one : I The Direa ObjeEl- is Chrig hirnfelf. z. The Final is the falvationwhich he brings 1. V ltimate, in our Glory : 2. Mediate, or ncerer, in our Pardon, Adoption andSanaification. Alfo Chrift hamfelf is conlidered as Good, and fo is received, with Love ' and as a Be- nefalor, and fo with Gratitude ; and as cj reat and l- Magnificent, and fo with reverence andadmiration;-andas King, and fo by a content of tubjeffion He is confideredas offered, and fo our Re- ceiving is content or he is confidered as in competition withother pyetending Meons, and fo our Receiving is EleEtion. Il thefe are but okeMoral , called Faith , or Taking, or Receiving Chrijf as oar Saviour And all thefe Natural.awEs areefential to this one MoralAR-. 1Cor.ie,2%. Though Charity,as it refperleth other Objeas, is no part of 1oh.15.27 thisFaith, yet as it rerpefleth an offered Saviour, it is as much Aotth effentialto Faith to Receive Chriflwith love, as it is effential to a Saviour (the objeEt of Faith) to be .good for us. For Good as Good

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