A26883:1776
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.
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 1the bare profession of Christianity was Christianity, and that Faith was a meer 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.
- 1Leg. Placeum. in Thes. Salvin. de h•sce. Vol. 1. & Conrad. Bergium in Prax. Cathol. & . e Blank. Thes. de Just. and our Mr. Gibbon's Serm. Of Justif. in the Morning-Exercises at Giles in the Fields. Paraeus de Justif. Cont. Bellarm. l. 2. c. 7. p. 469. Nos imputari nobis Christi justitiam ut per am formaliter justi nominmr & simus, neque diximus unquam, neque sentimus, ut aliquoties jam ostendimus: Id enim pugnaret, non minus cum recta ratione quam si reus in judicio absolutus diceret, see clementia judicis donantis sibi vitam, formaliter justum esse, &c.