A26864:207
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.
§. 17.
R. B. Darkly, but dangerously spoken. Darkly, for its possible you may mean, that it receives it by faith as by a condition sine quâ homo non est subjectum proximè capax: and so I grant the sense: dangerously, For the words will seem to any impartial Reader to import more; specially finding what you say for faiths instrumentality before: viz. That the Gospel receives its efficacy from faith, or by faith as the instrument which conveyeth that efficacy to the Gospel: which if you mean, I would for the Truth's sake, and your own, that these words had never been seen. For if faith give the Gospel its efficacy; 1. It cannot be as a concause-instrumental, coordinate; but as a superior, more principal cause to the subordinate. 2. If it were the former that is meant, yet were it intolerable.
R. B. DArkly, but dangerouslly spoken. Darkly, for its possible you may mean, that it receives it by faith as by a condition sine quâ homo non est subjectum proximè capax: and so I grant the sense: dangerously, For the words will seem to any impartial Reader to import more; specially finding what you say for faiths instrumentality before: viz. That the Gospel receives its efficacy from faith, or by faith as the instrument which conveyeth that efficacy to the Gospel: which if you mean, I would for the Truth's sake, and your own, that these words had never been seen. For if faith give the Gospel its efficacy; 1. It cannot be as a concause-instrumentall, coordinate; but as a superiour, more principal cause to the subordinate. 2. If it were the former that is meant, yet were it intollerable.