A26864:77
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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Prop. 6 Faith therefore can have no Physical Causation or Efficiency in justifying; seeing that the work to be done by us, is not nosmetipsos Justificare, in whole or in part, but only Jus acquirere ad Beneficium gratis sed conditionaliter collatum: It is a Relative change that is made by Justification, and not a Real or Physical.
Prop. 7. The Legal, formal interest, or conducibility of Faith to our Justification, cannot therefore be any other then that of a Condition, in the proper Law-sense, as the word [Condition] is used, viz. that species of conditions which they call Voluntariae vel Potestativae, and not Casuales vel Mixtae.
Prop. 8. Scripture doth not say (that I can find) that Faith justifieth; but that we are justified by Faith: I therefore use the later phrase rather then the former, both because it is safest to speak with the Scripture, and because the former speech seemeth to import an Efficiency; but the later frequently imports no more then a mere condition. Yet I will not quarrel with any that speaks otherwise, nor refuse to speak in their phrase while I dispute with them, as long as I first tell them my meaning.
Prop. 8. Scripture doth not say (that I can finde) that Faith justifieth; but that we are justified by Faith: I therefore use the later phrase rather then the former, both because it is safest to speak with the Scripture, and because the former speech seemeth to import an Efficiency; but the later frequently imports no more then a meer condition. Yet I will not quarrell with any that speaks otherwise, nor refuse to speak in their phrase while I dispute with them, as long as I first tell them my meaning.