(53) You add [ Relieved throughfaithgo to Chr.fi that betrethd `S the Relations mentioned: But as they%elffatisfaaion in his blood_ fheddi-o;, they a.e ?unified. 3 Repl. Very true ( if by as you underftand only the aptitude of the act to its office, and the cer- tain connexion ofthe etteet r otherwife it is not as they believe at all that they are juflified; but it is not only as they Peek fatis- faction in his blood; but alto as they believe in him as King, Teacher, Riling, Interceding, Vic. Though it be Chrifts blood, . and not his Dominion, that Ranfometh us ; yet his promi1 giveth the fruit of that blood as well on the conditionof be- lieving in him as King, as of the believing in his blood. Hither- toweve corne ih.ort ofyour proofs, which next we (hall pro. Geed t3, and freely examine. Mr. Blake. I fhall take the bodlnefc togive in my Argument-, to make good that faith in Chr.Ji qua Lord,doth not istlifae. Firfl,Tbat which the types under the law,appointedfor atonement . and expiation, leadus unto in Chriff, our faith mu(i eye for a- tonement, expiation, and reconciliation ; this cannot be denyed : Theft Levitical Types lead us doubtlefi to aright object , being Schoolmaffers to leadus untoGiffin, and fhaddows whereof he is. thefubflance: elf alfo to that office in hhn ( Who is the object of faith) whichferves for that work : But thefe types leadus to Chrif in bis Frieffly office,for the molt partasfacrifcing,fonsetime ae in terceáing,?ohn 1. 29. 2 Cor. 5.2 I. i Pet.i. 18../Fgreat part of theEpiffle to the Heb. h aproofof it. Reply I grant you both Major and Minor:but the queftion is a meer ftranger to the Juft concluion.Firfl, I t will not föllow,be- caufe our faith muff eye Chrift as Priefl for Reconciliation, that therefore it mutt eye him only as Priefl for Reconciliation. And if only be not in your excitation of other acts offaith follows not. Secondly, No, nor if it were in neither : for ex parse Chriffi for Reconciliation only Chrifis Prieflhood is to be eyed as the meritorious caufe (fpealcing in their fenfe that taketheprieftly . office to comprehend not only Chrift as Sacrificer, but as facri- fice,vea & as obeying in the form of a fervant,rhe fitnefs where- on now pafs by:) but ex parte,noflri, thefo eying him is not the only act offaithby which we are }utifted : f thatfor is ambigu- H ous_
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