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vf.
Admirable re-
conciling
of
aRice & mer-
cie
in Chri(l.
2.
iyaeMSéTO.
T.
Aft
of
Faith
in
twoThings.
Ifs.
53. ex.
Joh.ty.3.
Murk.
y.s3.
Q.t.,'
/inf.
Chrilt appre-
hended
by
the
uhderfanding
and will.
Epheflans,
Chap.
2,
V
E
R.
84
thou
not
Faith
a
Whiten
thus
thou arc, God will not
juftifie
thee,
nor accept thee to
life:
for to pronounce theejuft,that
don
not
beleeve
on
Chrift,
were
to
pronounce
the
guilty
innocent, which
u
an domina-
tion
with
God.
For
hence
it is,
that Gods
mercie and juftice
kiffe
(of-
fering
no violence
to
each
other)
becaufe
God doth
fo
of
grace
fave
us, (tanners
in
our felves)
that
firft
he
maketh
us
(through Chrift
ap.
plyed)
righteous , and
worthy
falvation ,
worthy
in regard
of
his
juif acceptation.
Whereas the Lord doth
fo
junifie
us
of
grace, that we
are alfo
made
juft
in
the redemption
of
Chrift;
we may
fee
and contemplate
that admirable
myferie,
how the Lords juftice
and mercie
fhould
ac-
cord
in
one.
There
is
all juftice
unto
Chrin,
whofe
foul felt
the anger
of
God
in
that
extremity, that
his
body
(affeCted
therewith)
did fweat
dotty,
blood, who
was
broken even with
hellifh
torment by the
hand
of
God for our
fins, and was
humbled
to the death
of
the
croffe.
There
is
all
mercie to
us; it
is
mercie
that the
fatisfaltion
of
Chrift
fhould
be ours, that
all he
did ,
fhould be accounted
as
done by
our
felves.
It
is
mercie, that
Chrift himfclf the
fatisfier, fhould be
given
us, faith
Paul,Rom.8.3z. He hath gratified
us
with
his Son,
he hath
benowed
him freely on us.
Now
we
will, for
our more fruitfull confidering
of
the
Point,
fet
down
thefe four
things
:
r. What
is
the
AQ
of Faith.
2.
What
is
the
Subje&
in
which
it
is.
3.
What
Objedt it hath.
4.
What
Properties.
Firft,
for the
AEt
of
Faith
,
it
ftandeth
in
thefe
two
things;
Knowledge,
and
Apprehenfron.
Faith
therefore
is
by
a Synecdoche called
Knowledge,
By his
knowledge
Jima
my
righteous
fervant
juf
ifte
many,
I
fa. 53.
TheO
is
life
eternal,
u
know,
be,
The
Apprehenfion likewife,
or
receiving
of the
thing
beleeved,
is
no
Ieffe
certain
;
the Scripture
fo conftruing
Faith, ieh.
r.I
z.
So
ma-
ny
as
receivedhim,
to
them he
gave
power
to be
called
the
Sons
of
God :
for
he
that bath
received
his
teflimony,
hath foaled
that
God
is
true.
He
that
beleeveth not, maketh
god
a lyer ;
And
this
is
the
principall thing
in
juftifying faith
:
for
the
devils
know, and many
can prophefie
in
his
name,
to
whom he
will fay, Depart
ye
workers
of
iniquity,
I
know
you
not.
But
how
is
this Apprehenfionmade, whether by the
underftand-
ing and
acknowledgement, Cal.z.z.
or by the
will
e
I anfwer,by both
;
a. By
affent in
the undemanding. z.
By
affi-
ance and confidence
in
the
41:
the latter cometh from the former.
And from this fecond
dcgre'
it
cometh, that Faith hath the
force
of
quieting,