(37) a Meer Natural good;) fo it is the mofi feemly, and honorable, and Scriptural way of expreffion, to call thofe as of gods which are terminatedon Moral g ood, by the-name cfLove and COM. placency though fnnetime alto Scripture extendoth them to thole ads that are terminatedin Natural good: but ordinarilyg od Paid rather to will Emil and ails as fuch ; and to love them, De- lght in them, and be leafed with them as good cillOrall, : If without Faith we cannot pleafe god, dombilefs both in andafter be- lievingaie do. 17. Tea Faith (and holyncfs,ofwhich anon) is therefore plea- see the fame Pig to God, and loved by him, becaufe goodMorally. Its true, that Texts laft properly we mug not fay that the object is the caufe of Gods Ad, cited, as it is of mans : But 1. It is but after the manner of man, and improperly, that we apply the Aff it felf to God ; and therefore on thefame ground (only with an acknowledged further impropriety) we may apply that to him which is the definition of mans all. 2. Though as Gods will, loving, pleafednefs, &c. is his Effence, fo we may neither think nor #eakof it, as caufed by the object : But as it Leither Formaliter (as Scotus fpeaki) or, ratione ratiocinate (as the Thornitts fpeak) diflinctfrom his Effence,or at leaftquoad Denominationem extrinfecarn, fo it may be Paid that God there- fore lovethHolinefs becaufe it is Good, andhateth fin becaufe it is Evil:andfogive a Reafon ofhis Actfrom the Object. Ifit be but an Objective ref sect that denominateth Gods Eq'ence to beKnow- ledge, Will, Love ; So from the Object mug the particular Acts be denominated, though there be no real diverfity. 18. A. quatenus, ad omne valet confequentia If faiths for- loh.16.z7. mad intereft in pardon be, As it is the Condition of the Act of par- don, thenwhatfoever is fisch a condition muff have the famekind offormal Intereft as faith. 19. Repentance is made by god in the Gofpel, 4 proper Cond:- Luk.14.47. tion of our firfi general pardon of fin, as well as Faith is, Luk. & 15.7. , 13.35, A61.3.19. &2.38. & 26.20.. 20. Faith was not defigned to the office of being a condition of pardon, only or directlyfor the general goodnefs of it but for a fpecial fort ofgoodnefs, confiffing in a fpecial aid.peculiar aptitude which it had to this office andhonour. For God having determined to glorift,love andmercy,it muff needs be by Free-grace andgifi: and determining to pardon us by freegift, there is no act fo directP F3
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