A26864:468
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.
§. 51.
R. B. That will not trouble you, which troubleth others. To your answer I Reply, 1. When we do, with the Scriptures, enquire after Faith in Christ crucified, we may well call that a false Faith which pretends to be this, and is not this, however true in suo genere. Faith in Jupiter, Sol, Mahomet, is true in suo genere: and so is humane Faith: yet I would call it a false Faith, if this should be pretended to be Faith in Christ. To believe in Christ as man only, or as God only, or as a Guide to Heaven only, and not as a Redeemer by ransom, or as one that is to justify us, but not to Sanctify or Rule us; each of these is true in suo genere, but false if they pretend to be that which Scripture calls Faith in Christ, and which denominateth Believers. So is it to believe with the understanding speculatively and superficially, and yet to Dissent with the will. I think, if a man say, This is the Son, the heir, come let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours; we will not have this man Reign over us: that these are not true Believers, nor have right to Baptism, though their belief that he is the heir, be a Dogmatical Faith, true in its kind.
R. B. THat will not trouble you, which troubleth others. To your answer I Reply, 1. When we do, with the Scriptures, enquire after Faith in Christ crucified, we may well call that a false Faith which pretends to be this, and is not this, however true in suo genere. Faith in Jupiter, Sol, Mahomet, is true in suo genere: and so is humane Faith: yet I would call it a false Faith, if this should be pretended to be Faith in Christ. To believe in Christ as man only, or as God only, or as a Guide to Heaven only, and not as a Redeemer by ransom, or as one that is to justifie us, but not to Sanctifie or Rule us; each of these is true in suo genere, but false if they pretend to be that which Scripture calls Faith in Christ, and which denominateth Believers. So is it to believe with the understanding speculatively and superficially, and yet to Dissent with the will. I think, if a man say, This is the Son, the heir, come let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours; we will not have this man Reign over us: that these are not true Believers, nor have right to Baptism, though their belief that he is the heir, be a Dogmatical Faith, true in its kinde.