I011.5.101 11,12. 1011.i .12. & 3. 15,17,18, 19. Tit.3. 5,7. 101%6.38,39, 40.2.7.2.8,29 & 16.27. fhb. II. 4, 5)6,7. Cep. 22,16. lude 21. Job.15.9,10. & 19.21. Pfal.33.5. Pro,' 5.y ( 36) ing the condition of that katisral Reception, Joh, 3. I 6. and 19. compared. 14. The neerefi and formal Reafon of Faiths Interefi in our pardonand juffification, is not either becaufe it is Faith in Genere, nor beeaufe it is hxc fides, this faith inipecie, that is, becatife it is the Apprebenfionof Chrift : For the objet' Ipecifieth the act , and to be an aR on fiich an object, is efential to that act in fpecie : to be anApprehenfion of(bra. is eilentialto faving Faith in fpecie: And it is not the Efence ofFaith, General or Special, that is the formal reafon of its intereg in our juflification : But it is its being a Condition of the promife, conflitutedfuch by the free Donor feeing it belongs to every freeDonor, much more to the ezilbfolute (Monarchof the world, to make his own terms, and determine If the Conditions of his own Donations : and as gods will as Creat'87 gives us the faculty whereby we Believe, and Gcds will as New Creator or Renewer,gives us the Reolitucle of that faculty, andfo faith it felf ; fo it is Gods will as Dcnor of pardon , luilificationt Adoption and Right to Glory, which only is able to give our faith itsneerefi formal Intereit in our Remiffion,lupification, Adoption, &c. Inorder of kature, though not of time, it is Faith, before it is juilifyingor Saving. The Natureof the thing-is before the office it isfreely defignedto. Ifhould have put this conclufion among the Negatives , be- caufe it takesfrom mans AR of Believing,- and not gives to it,. but gives all to the free Gonilitution and will of the Donor, but that it was here necejfary to illuflrate the refl'. 15 . Nor yet is it the goodnefs of Faith, as agoodwork,that is the formal Reafon of its Interefl in our pardon and juftification (whichwas hinted in the Negatives.) 16.Tet is the goodnefs of Believingpleafing to Cod ; and as EntityandEvent, asfach,is the ObjeR Cods will, as it is the fountain of Entityand Event as ludo (or the produR of that will :) fo is Cj oodnefs-(Moral the Object of the Will of Cod, as it is the Fountain and end of Ethical Rea itude and goodnefs. And therefore as the terms Love and Complacency, &c. are more or- dinarily and properly pplyed to the Ethical acts of the Will and Affection, which are in man meexcellent, then to the Natural eXppetite andDelight : and the ObjeRs of thefe Ethical AfeCti- 011sp are an Ethical good (as the objects of Natural Appetite is a Neer :
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