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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. If imperfect works are all sins or sinful, then they are not our Righteousness according to the Law of works. (For it justifieth no man for his sins.) But the former is true: Therefore the later. I doubt not but you know the state of the Controversy on this point, between us and the Papists.
5. If imperfect works are all sinnes or sinfull, then they are not our Righteousness according to the Law of works. (For it justifieth no man for his sins.) But the former is true: Therefore the later. I doubt not but you know the state of the Controversie on this point, between us and the Papists.
6. If the Law of works do denominate a man righteous, for imperfect works (which truly and properly are but a less degree of unrighteousness) then it seems that all wicked men (if not the damned) are legally righteous: For they committed not every act of sin that was forbidden them, and therefore are not unrighteous in the utmost possible degree. And the Law of works doth not call one degree of obedience [Righteousness] more then another, except it be perfect. But certainly all the wicked are not Legally Righteous (nisi aequivocè) Therefore, &c.
7. If our Faith, Repentance and sincere Obedience, may be, must be, and is, called our Righteousness, as it is the performance of the conditions of the new Covenant, or Law of Grace, then (at least) not only as they have an imperfect agreement with the Law of Works. But the antecedent is true: Therefore the consequent.