A26864:254
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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3. If faith and the Gospel be both full complete instruments, then either ejusdem effecti per eandem actionem, vel per diversas: not per eandem actionem, For 1. Then they should be one instrument. 2. Their esse is so different that their operari must needs be different. 2. If per diversas actions, then coordinate or subordinate: You think subordinate, it seems, and that faith gives power and efficacy to the Gospel; If so, then faith doth modo & sensu nobiliore Justificare quam Testamentum. But that's far from truth: For 1. It is most proper to say, The Covenant-grant justifieth: or the Law of grace justifieth; but it is less proper to say, Faith justifieth: and Scripture never saith so that I know of; but that we are justified by faith. 2. You say your self that faith is but a passive instrument: but the Testament is active, (morally in its kind.) 3. Recipere Evangelium is not so properly Justificare, as is immediate Justificare, Remittere, Jus ad Christum & remissionem constituere, which is the Gospels act. Credere non est tam propriè Justificare. Much more might be said of this, if necessary.
3. If faith and the Gospel be both full compleat instruments, then either ejusdem effecti per eandem actionem, vel per diversas: not per eandem actionem, For 1. Then they should be one instrument. 2. Their esse is so different that their operari must needs be different. 2. If per diversas actiones, then coordinate or subordinate: You think subordinate, it seems, and that faith gives power and efficacy to the Gospel; If so, then faith doth modo & sensu nobiliore Justificare quam Testamentum. But thats farre from truth: For 1. It is most proper to say, The Covenant-grant justifieth: or the Law of grace justifieth; but it is less proper to say, Faith justifieth: and Scripture never saith so that I know of; but that we are justified by faith. 2. You say your self that faith is but a passive instrument: but the Testament is active, (morally in its kinde.) 3. Recipere Evangelium is not so properly Justificare, as is immediate Justificare, Remittere, Jus ad Christum & remissionem constituere, which is the Gospels act. Credere non est tam propriè Justificare. Much more might be said of this, if necessary.