The seventh act of faith.

Herman Witsius has written:

“Moreover, when the believer so receives Christ and leans upon him, he not only considers him as a Saviour but also as a Lord. For he receives a whole Christ, and receiveth him just as he is: but he is no less Lord than a Saviour. Yea, he cannot be a Saviour unless he be likewise a Lord. In this doth our salvation consist, that we neither belong to the devil, nor are our own, nor the property of any creature, but of Christ the Lord. Faith therefore receives Christ the Lord, Col. ii. 6. Nor does Christ offer himself as a husband to the soul upon any other condition, but this, that he acknowledge him as his Lord, Psal. xlv. 10, 11. And when the soul cast himself upon Jesus, he, at the same time, renounces his own will, and surrenders himself up to the will of Jesus, to be carried whithersoever he pleaseth. Whence there is also in faith a humble surrender and giving up one’s self, whereby the believer, as in duty bound, yields himself, and all that is his, to Christ, who is freely given him. “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine,” Cant. vi. 3. 2 Cor. viii. 5. “gave their own selves to the Lord.” Almost in the same form as Amasai, with his companions gave themselves up to David, 1 Chron. xii. 18. “thine we are, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse.” And this our surrender to Christ, which we account the seventh act of faith, is the continual fountain and spring of all true obedience, which is therefore called the obedience of faith, Romans i. 5.”

(Witsius, Herman. The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man, Volume I, Kingsburg, CA: den Dulk Christian Foundation, 1990, p. 383-384)