A26864:305
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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§. 31.
R.B. 1. AT the first view, the first sentence seemed so strange to me, that I thought it meetest to say nothing, because it is scarce capable of any apt answer but what will seem sharp or unmannerly, For that which you say you may consider, is something or nothing: If something, and yet not capable of perfection or imperfection, it is such a something as the world never knew till now. But upon second thoughts I finde that de justitia your words may be born: For it is nothing that you speak of. Legal Righteousness not related to the Law or Rule, is Nothing: And Nothing cannot be more perfect or less; nisi negativè. But that holiness taken for spiritual habits and acts, can have neither perfection or imperfection; or that they are capable of no perfection or imperfection in any other sense, but as related; nor yet in any Relations to God, or the person dedicating, save only in the relation to the Rule; all these for the first reason shall have no answer but a recital.
§. 32.
Mr Bl. Paul's Gospel frame, whether you will call it righteousness or holiness is set out I am sure, Rom. 7. full of imperfection; yet all this as in reference to the Rule, as is answered, or fell short in conformity to it, vers. 22. I delight in the Law of God after the inner man.