A26864:109
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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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.
6. But I thought the contest in your Dispute had been, Which is the justifying act of faith, and which not? and therefore when you denied those in Heb. 11. to be acts of Justification (which I am forced to interpret [justifying acts]) I expected to find the true act asserted; but in stead of that I find the opposite member, is [The blood of Christ.] Is this indeed the Controversy? Whether it be [Accepting Christ as Lord] or [the blood of Christ] that justifieth? Never was such a Question debated by me, in the way here intimated. I am wholly for you, if this be the doubt: It is Christs blood that justifieth meritoriously. But yet ⟨p. 12⟩we are justified by faith too, as the condition of our interest in free Justification. And why should these two be put in opposition? I looked when you had asserted and well proved that it is not taking Christ as Lord, but only faith in his blood, that is the condition on our part, of our attaining Justification.
6. But I thought the contest in your Dispute had been, Which is the justifying act of faith, and which not? and therefore when you denied those in