A26864:583
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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§. 62.
Mr. Bl. And such a one I should have looked to have gathered up from the Institution, and thus (I conceive) framed; He to whom I give Christ, to him I give Justification and Salvation: But here I give thee Christ; therefore to thee I give Justification and Salvation.
Mr. Bl. ANd such a one I should have looked to have gathered up from the Institution, and thus (I conceive) framed; He to whom I give Christ, to him I give Justification and Salvation: But here I give thee Christ; therefore to thee I give Justification and Salvation.
§. 63.
R. B. 1. What mean you by gathering it? Do you mean that you will read it there ready formed? If so, show us the Chapter and Verse? But that must not be expected; for you say anon, that it is something not written that is sealed. Or do you mean that in the Institution, God gives you the materials, and you form it your selves? If so, why blamed you mine, which is of mans forming, but yet as you suppose, the materials so far of God, that the conclusion is de fide. To give you the materials of a Syllogism, is not to give you a Syllogism; for the form denominates. I must therefore suppose a Believer yet to be upon the frame of one (as you speak). For I take you to be a Believer and I find you here at it very seriously. 2. I confess, (though I have no mind to quarrel with your Syllogism) that I am never the better for the substitution of this in the room of the humane one. I know not the meaning of the first word, (but I will not stand on that, as being I know but a verbal slip) I do not apprehend what use there can be for this Syllogism in this business. 1. It is supposed that every Christian knows that Christ and Remission are given together; and when they know it, what use for syllogizing towards the explication of the use of that Seal? 2. Nay doth not your arguing intimate that the believer is more assured that Christ is given to him, then that pardon is given him? Or else if the former were not quid notius, how could it be a fit medium? you suppose his doubt to be of pardon and salvation, and the former brought to prove that, whereas I think, few doubt of one, but they doubt of the other: and I think the Sacrament sealeth the gift of Christ, as well as of pardon, as you confess. I see not but you might have laid down as conveniently in this one proposition, all that you say is sealed, I give thee Christ and Justification and Salvation. But this is of small moment.