220 The Life of Faith. condemn none of them but thole that finally rejed ir. All things are of God, who bath reconciled us to kimfeif by jetty Chriff, andbath given tous the Minif}ry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Chi reconciling the world unto bimfilf, not imputing their trefpafs to them ; and bath committed to us the word of reconciliation : Now then we are Embaffadorsfor Chrift, as though Ged didbefeechyou by us : we prayyou in Cbrif s Jfead, beye reconcikdunto God, 2 Cor. q. r8, 19, 20. So that it is at once the belt(of the Father as reconciled, and the Son as the Reconciler, and that according to the tenour of the common conditional Covenant, which is the firtt afferringpart of faving Faith. 8. This fame Covenant which revealetb God as thus far reconciled by Cori. i doth offer him to be further ativaíy and fully reconciled, and to fuffifteand glorifie us; that is, to forgive, accept, and love us perfcslly for ever. And it offreth us Ore to be our a6ual Head and Mcdiatour, to procure and give us all this mercy, by communicating the benefits which he bath purchafed according to his Covenant-terms : fo that as before the Father and the Son were revealed to our aient to- gether ; fo here they arcoffered to the Will together. 9. In this offer, God is offered as the End, and Chrift as Mcdiatour is offered as the Means ; therefore the ad of the Will to God, which is here required, is frmple Love of compla- cency (with fubjetion, which is a confect to obey) but the aét of the Will to Chritt, is called choice or content, though there be in it Amor Medii, the Love of that Means for its aptitude as to the end. ro. ThisLove of God as theEnd and Coufint to Chrift as the Means, being not as ofthe Intelleli, but ofthe Will, can- not be the fir(t asof Faith, but do prefuppofctheftrft affent- ing ados. is. But the affenting adof Faith, doth caufe there as of the Will to God and the Mediatour. l3ecaufc we believe the Truth and GoodtufP, weConfine and Love. 12. Both there as of the Will are caufed by *flint at osso time, without the leaft diftance. 13 . But here is a difference in order of Nature, bemire WC will God as the End, and for bitnfelf; and therefore ftrfi{- in . the
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