or Form of Faith. 29 it is the Hand only ; and the Reafon is, be- caufe we are not juftified by Faith, as it is a Work, but as this Act Iays hold on Chrift, and is accommodated for doting with Chrift for our Juftification : The condemned Male-. faéor to whom a Pardon is brought, and pleads Indemnity therefrom, if not without natural Affection, Both certainly plead with Affe±ion, and with much Heart Concern- ruent ; yet it is not his Love to the Pardon that doth abfolve him, 'ris the Pardon pleaded from, and not as the Man is taken up with it, that doth abfolve him. So here it is true, a dead Faith will not juftify, becaufe a dead Faith is not a true Faith. O1jeE . ;2. But doth not this go along with the Pa.pifts, that fay, That Charity is the Form of Faith ; when it is maintain'd, that the Manner or Form how Faith ads, is cor- dially. I anfwer; I differ from Papifis, who make Charity the Form of Faith °iii (three Things) in that, (r.) I make Love but the accidental Form of Faith, tho' infeparable from true Faith : For Proteftants do not de- ny, that Faith worketh by Love ; yea, Pa pills make that Love to God, which they fay, is theForm of Faith, a moral Virtue or Grace aufwering to the Moral Law ; this Afífe&iota or Love that accompanies Faith, is by Pro- teftants affirmed to be an evangelical Grace, flowing4$an infeparabic Property fromFaith: And
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