(zz ) hurtfully curious to me : much more thole that reduce ail to an unconceivabepati : I plainly therefore affirm, that faith is not any physical receiving, ( as the hand do:h receive money, as you would afterward make rye believe the Afernbly means ) but a Metaphorical Moral receiving : and that it is not by any one ,adof the foul (much lets a Pa#ion ) but by the whole foul, Underítanding and Will : the former begianing, the later con- fummating it, (as Davenant foundly, ) And let us tree by commonspeech, which of thefe is the more plain and probable fence. Suppofe a Prince will redeem a Turkifb condemed flave, and fend him word [ I have bought thee and if thou Wilt receive,( or take ) me for thy Redeemer, Deliverer and Lord, and for the future mílr ferve me and be thankful/ , I mill at7ually jet theefree. Here it would fure be a filly thing to fall a queftio- ning, what the Prince means by the word [ Receive or take ] Whether it be an adof this faculty,or that?Whether this or that ad ?Or whether it is meerly Pati? Though we are toowife to un- derfiand this now ; I warrant you the foolifhtft flave would foon understand it : and know that to receiveor take the Prince for his Redeemer, is to believe him, and content, and thankful- ly accept of him as he requires, and of deliverance by him: And he that should ask him, Whether it were the bare adof affiance,or whether gratitude or love were included in the term? would feem but fimple to him. If a Prince will deliver a con- demned woman from death, and offer with all tomarry her,and give her himfeif, and all hehath, on condition the will receive or takehim for her husband,(and accordingly be a faithful' wife to him till death) He that fhould here fiep in, and raife pro found Scruples, and enter difficult difputes, whether this recei- ving were an adof the Undo ftanding or Will ? Whether Af- fiance, Recoi°nbency, Affurance, &c. or whether a Pafsion ? would be well judged rid culous ; when every man knows at the firft word what it is for the woman to receive or take a man for her Husband, even gladly and lovingly to confent and accept the offer, and with all her heart deliver up her felf to him ac- cordingly. So if a King of another Nation, that hach right allo to this, but not pofefsion, fhould fend to us,to charge us to receive him fòir our King; what a hard word is this co under- fiand
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