_of Faith 181 Nor do I leek any more than to fay, Trat as Love and Eledion proceed from the Will fo believing proceeds fubjedively from the Uri- -1' itanding : For if the Underi}anding and i11 be not diftind Faculties, then theft As of Eieáion, Love, Hatred, Anger, Confent, are feared in, and do proceed from the Un- derftanding as the proper Subjeó , as well as from the Will. Obje&. 3. It is not with Propofitions we clofe when we believe ; but 'tis with Chrig ; 'The Will choofes and embraces him : Therefore the Under- flanding is not the proper Subjea of Faith. I antwer, We clofe by Faith with Propofim tions; but not without Chrift : Py the Un- derftanding we receive and apply not naked Propofìtions; but Propofrious and Promifes that hold out Chrift to -us for Juftihcation Wherefore we both dole with Chrift and the Promife ; with the one immediately, and the other mediately the Promifes are the Obje& quo, Chrift the Object quod : 'Tis with Chrift then that weclofe; but 'tiswithChrift in aWord; with which Word the Underftanding clofes, and by Virtue of which the Will embraces Chrift as Good, and choofes him as the Means of Salvation but this A& of the Will is but an imperare A'd, a fecondary trot an eli- cite primary Ad. Objeá. 4. Faith is nothing but the Soul's Union with Chrift, clofing with biro, a receiving M 3 of
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