A26864:108
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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3. Yet you should not (in my judgement) have called [Abraham's obedience, Moses self-denial, Gideons valour] acts of Justifying faith: Are these acts of faith? If you mean that these acts are fruits of faith, its true: Or if you mean that an act of faith did excite the soul to each of these acts, and so you mean not the obedience, valour, &c. but the act of faith which excited it, then you might call those acts of justifying faith: But if I had called valour and obedience so, I should have been blamed.
3. Yet you should not (in my judgement) have called [Abrahams obedience, Moses self-denial, Gideons valour] acts of Justifying faith: Are these acts of faith? If you mean that these acts are fruits of faith, its true: Or if you mean that an act of faith did excite the soul to each of these acts, and so you mean not the obedience, valour, &c. but the act of faith which excited it, then you might call those acts of justifying faith: But if I had called valour and obedience so, I should have been blamed.
4. What mean you to say Obedience and Valour was not their Justification? Do you think that any act of faith is Justification? You mean (if I may conjecture from your after-doctrine) the instrument of Justification.
5. But then how come you to say next, that it is Christs blood? The blood of Christ is the meritorious cause of our Justification, which improperly may be called also, the Matter of it: But I think it is neither our Justification formally, nor the instrument of it in proper speech.