Reply.
1. You might easily discern from what went be∣fore, that I spoke of the Condition of Justification.
2. I perceive now that you think the receiving Christ as Priest, and as King, are two distinct acts; and that the former alone justifieth us, not only without the other, as a Condition, but even without its presence, which is but to follow because we are justified. Contrary, He that receives not Christ as Christ, (that is, in all the essentials of his Mediatory Office) doth not receive him, so as to be justified by him. But he that receives him only as Priest, and not as King, doth not receive him as Christ; there∣fore, &c. The Scripture calleth him Christ, the Anointed, more fully and frequently, in respect to the Kingly part of his Office than any. A false Faith doth not justifie: But to receive Christ only as a Priest, and not as King, is a false Faith; there∣fore, &c. Again, He that knows not Christ to be the King of the Church by Office, and de jure the Ruler of his Soul, knows him not with a true know∣ledg (no more than he that knows not that a man hath a head, but only a heart, hath a true know∣ledg of man;) therefore so to receive him is no true receiving. And if he know him to be King, and yet receive him not as such, then it is worst of all. Lastly, To receive Christ so as he was never offered, is no true receiving: But to receive him as Priest only, is so to receive him as he was never offered;