A26864:199
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 15.
R. B. J Am too shallow to reach the reason of these words. I know you had not leisure to write them in vain, and merely to fill paper. And I will not be so uncharitable as to think you willing to intimate to the world, that I had wrote or thought that the Gospel was the instrument of justifying a man that was never justified. Do you think I know not a Cause and Effect are so related, that formaliter it is not an efficient before it doth effect? Though it may still be the same Thing, and have the same Aptitude to produce the Effect, even when it is not applied: and therefore by many Logicians is laxly termed a Cause still. 3. Nor can I perceive you make this a medium of any argument: except you would argue thus: The grant of the Covenant is not an Instrument of justifying unbelievers that never were justified: Therefore it is not a full or proper instrument of justifying believers that are justified.] Or else, therefore faith is an instrument as well as the Gospel. To your Reader that is no wiser then I, these words therefore, are at the best but lost labour. For I suppose this Argumentation you will not own.
R. B. J Am too shallow to reach the reason of these words. I know you had not leasure to write them in vain, and meerly to fill paper. And I will not be so uncharitable as to think you willing to intimate to the world, that I had wrote or thought that the Gospel was the instrument of justifying a man that was never justified. Do you think I know not a Cause and Effect are so related, that formaliter it is not an efficient before it doth effect? Though it may still be the same Thing, and have the same Aptitude to produce the Effect, even when it is not applied: and therefore by many Logicians is laxly termed a Cause still. 3. Nor can I perceive you make this a medium of any argument: except you would argu• thus: The grant of the Covenant is not an Instrument of justifying unbelievers that never were justified: Therefore it is not a full or proper instrument of justifying believers that are justified.] Or else, therefore faith is an instrument as well as the Gospel. To your Reader that is no wiser then I, these words therefore, are at the best but lost labour. For I suppose this Argumentation you will not own.