The Lie of Faith. 343 to the Medicines (or receiving this man to be his Phyfician as a p- efcrtbcr of the Medicines) is more the condition of his , cure, than his contenting to the cure it fell, or receiving the' Phytician as the caufe of his health : So here it is fuppofed that condemned {inners are already willing to be juftified, par- dnncd and Paved from punthment, but nor willing to repent and follow the teaching and coatnfel ofa Saviour and there. fore that Pardon and Juftificatios is given and off:red them, on condition that they accept of; and submit to the reaching and government of Chrift, and of falvation from their fins But the truth is, we muff not prcfume beyond his revelation, to give the reafrns ofGods inttitutions : We are lure that the entire Belief in Chriii, and acceptingof himfelf as our perfed Saviour rn order to all the ends of his Relation, is made by God in his Covenant, the condition ofour title to the bene- fits of his Covenant conjunc`ly : And it is not only the be- lieving in Chriti for pardon that as fuck is the condition ofpar- don ; nor is any one ad thecondition ofany benefit, but as it is a part ofthat whole Faith which is indeed the condition. The oécafion oftheir er'rour is, that they confider only what it is in Chriti the objeel of Faith which jufh eth, fancäifieih,&c. and they think that the aid only which is exercifed on that ob- jeiï mutido it ; which is agrowmistake : Becaufe Faith is not like takingof mony, jewels, books, &c. into ones hand, which is a phylical ad which taketh poffiffion of them : But it is a Jus,orDebiturn, a Rigkrand Relation which we are morally and pawely to receive, as conftituting our fìrtl Ju.ltification and Pardon ; and as the condition ofthis we are to take Christ for our Saviour, which is but aphyficial af7ive metaphorical re- caving, in order to the attainment 'of the laidponeproper re- ceiving (For recipere proprie eft pari.) If an Ad be paffed, that all Traitors and Rebels, whowill give up themfelves to the Kings "Son,as one that hatheanfom- ed them, tobe taught and ruled by him, and reduced to their obedience,& to be their general in the wars againti his enemies; (hall have pardon, and lands, and honours,and further rewards after this fcrvicc; here the Prince himfelfdoth deliver them by his ranfom, and enrich them by his lands, andhonour them by dais honour or power,&4.But their a& ofgiving up thernfclves to
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