A26864:236
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.
§. 23.
R. B. Yet more strange! 1. Is it not enough that you take the Word to be a passive instrument of Confirmation and Conversion? and all the work that it doth on the souls of your hearers really? […] you must feign the Word to be the passive instrument of Justification too? Is there any thing in the whole world that can m•r• unfitly be called a passive instrument, then the Covenant of Justification? Why, it is Gods only instrument of active Constitution of the dueness of the benefi•? Though it be but actione morali, ut •ignum •• l•ntatis donatoris. The Debitum results from the Grant, Deed of Gift, Testament, or Instrument of Donation or Conveyance, as from its fundamentum proximum: And is the fundamentum proximum Relatio•is a passive Instrument▪
R. B. YEt more strange! 1. Is it not enough that you take the Word to be a passive instrument of Confirmation and Conversion? and all the work that it doth on the souls of your hearers really? 〈…〉 you must feign the Word to be the passive instrument of Justification too? Is there any thing in the whole world that can m•r• unfi•ly be called a passive instrument, then the Covenant of Justification? Why, it is Gods only instrument of active Constitution of the dueness of the benefi•? Though it be but actione morali, ut ignum lntatis donatoris. The Debitum results from the Grant, Deed of Gift, Testament, or Instrument of Donation or Conveyance, as from its fundamentum proximum: And is the fundamentum proximum Relatiois a passive Instrument