A26883:1775
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
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.
363. I say again therefore, for any man to say that some one physical act, either assent, or consent, or affiance, upon one particular Object ⟨p. 122⟩(Christ's Righteousness as offered us) is the instrumental cause of our Justification; and that to look to be justified by any other act of Faith on Christ, or on the Father, or Holy Ghost, or on Heaven the final Object (God in Glory), or secondarily as subsequent parts of the condition of Salvation, by Repentance, by praying for Pardon, by forgiving others, by Obedience to Christ, &c. is to look to be justified by Works in the sense that Paul excludeth them; this is but to abuse the Gospel and the Church, by a scandalous misinterpretation of a great part of the New Testament.
364. St. James therefore having to do with some who thought that 1the bare profession of Christianity was Christianity, and that Faith was a mere assent to the Truth, and that to believe that the Gospel is true, and trust to be justified by Christ was enough to Justification, without Holiness and fruitful Lives, and that their sin and barrenness hindered not their Justification, so that they thus believed (perhaps misunderstanding Paul's Epistles) doth convince them that they were mistaken, and that when God spake of Justification by Faith, without the Works of the Law, he never meant a Faith that containeth not a resolution to obey him in whom we believe, nor that is separated from actual Obedience in the prosecution; But that as we must be justified by our Faith against the charge of being Infidels, so must we be justified by our Gospel personal holiness and sincere Obedience against the charge, that we are unholy and wicked, or impenitent, or Hypocrites, or else we shall never be adjudged to Salvation, that is, justified by God.
364. St. James therefore having to do with some who thought that 1