A26864:117
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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R. B. 1. IF James must use the term [Works] twelve times in thirteen verses, (a thing not usual) as if he had foreseen how men would question his meaning, and yet for all that we must believe that by [Works] James doth not mean [Works] it will prove as hard a thing to understand the Scripture, ⟨p. 13⟩as the Papists would persuade us that it is: and that there is as great a necessity of a living deciding Judge.
R. B. 1. IF James must use the term [Works] twelve times in thirteen verses, (a thing not usual) as if he had foreseen how men would question his meaning, and yet for all that we must beleeve that by [Works] James doth not mean [Works] it will prove as hard a thing to understand the Scripture, ⟨p. 13⟩as the Papists would perswade us that it is: and that there is as great a necessity of a living deciding Judge.
2. Do but read over all those verses, and put [working-faith] in stead of [Works] and try w•at sense you will make.
2. Do but reade over all those verses, and put [working-faith] in stead of [Works] and try w•at sense you will make.
3. No doubt but Paul and James handle two distinct Questions▪ but not the two that you here express. Paul speaks of Meritorious Works, which make the Reward of Debt, and not of Grace, if you will believe his own description of them,