A26864:256
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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5. For it is no better when you say, they make up one complete instrument. For 1. You said before that faith gives power and efficacy to the Gospel: which if true, then the Gospel is an instrument subordinate to faith, and therefore not one with it. 2. The Gospel is causa totalis in suo genere, fully as an instrument conveying right, quando vel venit dies, vel praestatur conditio: therefore it is not causa partialis, vel pars causae. 3. There is such a disparity in the actions of each, viz. Credere, and Remittere vel donare Christum & Remissionem, that they cannot possibly as causae partials, constitute one complete cause: For one immediately and properly produceth the effect: the other not so. 4. You say, that they are both passive instruments: But so they cannot make one instrument: For surely nec patiuntur idem, nec ab eodem; nec formam Justificationis Evangelium patiendo recipit. Though indeed your authority must do more then your reasons, to prove it of either.
5. For it is no better when you say, they make up one compleat instrument. For 1. You said before that faith gives power and efficacy to the Gospel: which if true, then the Gospel is an instrument subordinate to faith, and therefore not one with it. 2. The Gospel is causa totalis in suo genere, fully as an instrument conveying right, quando vel venit dies, vel praestatur conditio: therefore it is not causa partialis, vel pars causae. 3. There is such a disparity in the actions of each, viz. Credere, and Remittere vel donare Christum & Remissionem, that they cannot possibly as causae partiales, constitute one compleat cause: For one immediatly and properly produceth the effect: the other not so. 4. You say, that they are both passive instruments: But so they cannot make one instrument: For surely nec patiuntur idem, nec ab eodem; nec formam Justificationis Evangelium patiendo recipit. Though indeed your authority must do more then your reasons, to prove it of either.
6. If •aith be more aptly and fitly (as you speak) called, an instrument, then it is a properer speech to •ay, Faith, or mn by faith, forgiveth sins; then that The Covenant-grant or Condonation, or act of pardon doth forgive them. Se Absit!