(317) -there t:4 a diflance of time 6etW ten the Ails , there isa divifi"on Doyou think that We are Chrifls enemies , or followers ofthem, unlefs we will believe you that a man is yaflifind by Believing in Chrifl only as a `Priefl or. Rations, or inhu Righteoufnefs, before ever be believe in bim as King andLord (andfo asTeacher,&c.) IfI had faid thatyou are Chrifls enemyforfuch Doflrine,Which, thinkryou,had bad the fairer pretence for hù cenfisre I But Isun far fromfayingfo, orthinking it. I !know that the Afent to the efential Articles ofCbriffi-anity,cowaineth many Alb ,and that our Confine andAffiance are many Pbyfical 4tis, as theparts of Chrrf#s Office aremany ObjeEls. But yet I (do not think,biet) am certain that all thefephrfical Aïtsconcur to make up that :Mo- ral Ai. which iscagedChriflian, or faving, or 70flifying Faith ; and that be that believeth not in Chrift as toall that is effential to Chrift, no Chriftian. Anda man ís not jufiified by Faith before he a Chriftian. e4nd truly Sir , men that are loth to fie from the Light and that love the Truth , and diligently leek it (,ásheartily, ifnot as happily asyou) mutt yet needs tel you, thatifyou produceyour Mormolu ks an hundred times, and cant over andover [ a Papift, a Socinian, an Arminian ; and an, Arminian, a Socinianand a Papia] their underfianding: will ne. ver the more be' perfpraded t embrace your Delulions , though you fhossid lay that theKingdom of goddorh confift in them. Your fourth Argument is that , [ There is a difference in Nature,Eficacy, Energy, and Operation; therefore theActs are not the fame. ] Anfw. t. I maintained theconclufion ( that faithhath differeat lily) before ever I heard of your name ; and have no reafon now to denieit. z. ThedifferenceofNature, I grantyou between many Ans offaith ;; but What you mean by the Efficacy, Energy , and Operation ,he that knowscan tell ; for Icannot. But lidI delire you to know that I deny faith to have any efficient operation in jeeftifyng us, or that it to anefficient carafe of our heft fication ; effieciafly its no Phyfical efficient ; you adda firange proofof your Affertion, [viz. For faith as Juitifying makes a myftical Union and relative change on the perlon ; but faith as working and fanetifying produceth a moral union With Chrift. &c.] Anfw. x. Faith aejuftifying Both only ?ufti- Sf 3 fit
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