(to) faith, love,and all graces have but one habit: If the first hold; then the diftin&ion as before explained, bath no place. If the laft hold, then the Habit of Love, or Fear, may be on the fame ground, Paid to juftifie. If I have before hit on their meaning, then the dift.in&ion of theHabit is virtuali;, and the diÌtinction of the aces is realis, and they totallyexclude all acts, fave that which they fix upon; not from being prefent, but from a co- interest. But fromwhat incereft ? Of a íaufe ? that we deny even to all : Of a Condi- tion? that theygrant ro thefe which they exclude. Next, we muff underftand the members of their Distinction And fometime they exprefs one branch to be [ fides qua cat ] and fometime L fidea quaapprehen -dit Chriftum fatilf en tem, &c. ] As to the former, it cannot be contradiftinct from ti faith in Ch- i't as Lord,] but from faith as fan1ifying, &C. it being but a denominative or virtual diilin&ion of one and the tame faith, from the several confequents. And fo I eafily grant that fides q 'ia jngificat, non fanit: fasat vel glorificat, and foof all the confcvents of it. As it is the condition of one, it is not the conditionof the other which is no More, then to fay that there is between the confequents DiffinCtio realis , from whence the kntecedent(Really the fame )may be denominative- lyor virtually diftinguithed : As the fame man that goeth be- fore a hundred particular men, bath a hundred diftinct Relati- ons to them, as Before them all. The very fame condition in a free Gift , may be the condition of many hundred benefits; and, accordingly be Relatively and denominatively diftinguifh- ed ; when yet it is as truly the condition ofall asiof one,and bath. equal interest as to the procurement. And as for the other phrafe that [fade., qua recipit Chrifitos fatilfacientern,jufliftat , ] properly it is falfe D.ocrine ; if qua fignifie the neareft Reafonof faiths intereft in procuring Tuf i fication; for then it is but to fay that [ fides, quafades,ju/tifie,sr which is falle. The denomination and the defcription exprefs but the fame thing,; fides is the denomination; and Receptio Chrifti is the defcription = if therefore it justifie qua Receptio Chryli, then it jufifieth qua fader, that is, qua hac fides in fpecie which is to afcribe it to the 771 crsdere witha witnefs,. Andelle whge..
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