Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

(316) as Lord. You err fogreat butfo rarean error, that I u eat needlefs to.confeete it. All Ckrifiians al far as I can learn been till no* agreed,that Believing in ('hrift as Prophet and King is a real part offaith, and that unbeliefor rejctiing him as Pro ¡het and King if areal p?rt ofunbelief. Tourfecund Argument is from the different fubjeás ; where yougive tsa twofuckpalpable Fiattions, that its a wonder you can make your felfbelieve them, much more that jou l ould lay Jó great a ftrefs onfuckabfurdities. The firß if that the Aft of Faith is in feveral faculties : andTom elrwereg yr Ltd to under- ftand that it is one Phyfical Act that you mean. e 4nddoyou think in good fadnefs that one Jingle Pie;facal apt can be the art of both thefaculties ? The /econd is that the fear love and obe- dience toChrift as King is but in the Will. But Y. what Rea- ders doyouexpell, that will take an Ajertionof Fear, Love, and Obedience, in (lead ofan affection concerning Faith ? Were you not comparing faith in Chrift as Kin!, 'i.b faith ins Chrift as Prief# only ? Andwhy f}ieak you not of faith in one part of your corrnparifon,ae well as rn the other ? Your conclsi on now ú nothing to the G ueftion ? 2. Or if you mean that Faith in Chrift as King is not in both faculties, as Well as Faith in Chrift as Prieft or facrifice, didyou think tls.at any man of ordinary underfl and- áng wouldever believe you Without any proof ? er that over f ch a thing can be proved ? Your third Argument is, [Becaufe they are in a different time carted ; the one, that is, Faith as J ullifying, being precedane_ :)usto the other, ( and tootherGraces) J Anfw. ZI%onderftill Is that man jrsfliftd that believeth not in Chrift as the King and Prophet of the Church ? Doyou believe thisyourfelf ? why then an Infidelis juftißedby Faith. The Reliefin Chrifi as a Sacri- fice or Prieft only, rs not the Chriflian faith ; it is not faith in Chrift properly, becaufe it is net faith in Chrift as Chrift. For Chrifi as Prie(t only is not Chrifi. AHeart only is not Corpus humanum : e./1Body only is not aMan ; Where there are three effential parts, one ofthem is not the Thing, without the ret.The rsaaese jefus Chrift i fignifieth the office as well as the perfon. It is efentialto that Ofrice, that he be Prophet andKing. And bere- Syyoufhew thatyou do not only diftinguifh but divide, For Where there

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