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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › Section 11: How faith Justifieth.
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.
SECT. XI. How faith Justifieth.
198. The common saying that faith justifieth as an Instrument might pass as tolerable, if too many did not strain it to a wrong sense, and raise 1unwarrantable Doctrines from it, and harden the Papists by unwarrantable Answers. A Justifying Instrument properly is an efficient Instr• mental cause of Justification, which I have elsewhere too largely proved that faith is not, either Gods Instrument or ours, Physical or Moral, no• any way efficiently justifieth us. But justifying, is one thing; to Receive justification is another thing, and to be justified is a third. Faith i• no justifying act: But faith is in its Essence the Acceptance of an offered God, Christ, Spirit, for Life: This Acceptance is by the Covenant made the condition of our passive true Reception and Possession of Right (before opened): To be such a Condition performed, is to be a removens prohibe•s of the said Reception: which is strictly to be Dispositio materiae recipienti• ▪ And so it may be called, 1. A Receiving Cause. 2. And a medi•• or dispositive Cause of the effect, Justification as Received, but not as Given: (As I said Dr. Twice chooseth to call it) But this causa Dispositiva is p of the causa Materialis, viz. Qua disposita: A cause, or more properly a condition why I receive Justification, and by receiving it am Justified; which is their meaning who call it A Passive Instrument, that is, A ceiving Instrument.