(zo9) prehes;fion, For there mull be found in it (Wit were fuck) thefe four rcquifïtes. I.There mull be a phyfical paf.ion or re- ception. 2. A phyt cal efficiency. 3. This efficiency muff be pacier,do, nonagendo. 4. And it muti be filch an efficiency as is proper to inflruments. I may riot fland to enquire exactly in- to all these. r . The firft I have confuted already , and Í1:311 add this much more. i. What doth faith thus receive ? 2F How doth it receive it ? 3. Whence ? Or fromwhat Agent and Act ? I. IS itlChritl himself that is phyfi cally received by faith ? I. Who dare fay fo, but the Z'biguitaui:anJ ;and Tranfubilan- tiation men ? and perhaps not they. Christ is in Hewven, and we on earth. Amultitude of blafphemers , Libertines;and Fami- lifls, I lately meet with that dream of this but no lober man. 2. And indeed if Chrifts perfon were thus received, it would not make a man righteous , or jutifie him. As all our Di- vines'fay, his being in the body of c fary would not have jelli- fied her : Nor did the kiffing of his lips juffifie ?ohs ; nor searing and druìkng in his prefence juflifie thole that mull de- part from him for wórki;ng iniquity , c 'tatthcW 7, If we had fo known Chrifl, we hould know him no more : It was neceffary to his Difciples that he fhould go from them ; we muff not have theCapernaites conceitof eatinghis flcfh, Yea, to talkofa phv cal receiving by faith, is far g offer : For the mouth was capable ofthat phyficalcontact, which faith is not. 3: And then this will not fland with their Judgemenr,that blame me for making Chri l himfelf the object of jellifying faith, and not the promife directly. 2. Ifyou fay that the thing received is Chrifts righteoufnefs , (as molt de that I read) I anfwer, a, Righteoufnefs is but a relation : And therefore a thing which is naturally uncapable ofbeing of is felf phyfically apprehend- ed. This is paff doubt. 2. If it be phyfically received, then tither as a principle and quality, or as anobject. Not the for- mer : For fo we receive our firft, (and after) grace in fancti- fication; but none ever Paid fo in juftification Nor indeed can that righteoufnefs which is formally but a relation , dwel in us as a principle or quality. If we receive it as an objeet , then by an At : Or if the foul were granted to be pafsive in reception ofan ob;e6l, X have (hewed that, t . It is butin ap- E e preen.
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