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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.
Lib. But if I grant you, that salvation is the Reward of our own faith and holiness, I shall never grant you that we are Righteous by it before God, or that it is any part of that Righteousness by which we are justified: for that is only the Righteousness of Christ.
Lib. BUt if I grant you, that salvation is the Reward of our own faith and holiness, I shall never grant you that we are Righteous by it before God, or that it is any part of that Righteousness by which we are justified: for that is only the Righteousness of Christ.
P. I hope you are not willing to wrangle about words not understood. Quest. 1. Do you think that the words [Righteous, Righteousness and Justification] have but one sense in Scriptures, and in our common use?
Lib. No: you proved more before.
P. Quest. 2. If the Devil, or Men, or a mistaking Conscience, should say that you (or any Saint) is an Infidel, or hath no faith, how must you be justified against that charge?
Lib. By denying it, and by maintaining that I do believe.
P. Very good: Then faith it self as faith doth so far justify you. And Quest. 3. If you be charged to be Impenitent and never to have truly Repented, how must you be justified against that charge?
P. Very good: Then faith it self as faith doth so far justifie you. And Quest. 3. If you be charged to be Impenitent and never to have truly Repented, how must you be justified against that charge?
Lib. By denying it, and averring that I did Repent.
P. So then, your Repentance it self must so far justify you. And Quest. 4. If you are charged to have been an ungodly person to the last, or not to have loved God, or your neighbour, not to have called on God, nor confessed Christ before men, nor to have fed, clothed and visited him (as you could) in his members, or not to have mortified your fleshly lusts, but to have lived after the flesh, in murder, theft, whoredom, drunkenness, &c. What is your righteousness against this accusation?
P. So then, your Repentance it self must so far justifie you. And Quest. 4. If you are charged to have been an ungodly person to the last, or not to have loved God, or your neighbour, not to have called on God, nor confessed Christ before men, nor to have fed, clothed and visited him (as you could) in his members, or not to have mortified your fleshly lusts, but to have lived after the flesh, in murder, theft, whoredom, drunkenness, &c. What is your righteousness against this accusation?
Lib. I must defend my self against a lye by denying it to be true: I must be so far justified, that is, vindicated against Calumny by my innocency in those points.
P. Very good: so far then you must be justified by your godliness, love, obedience, mortification, innocency and works. And what if you be charged as an Hypocrite to have done all that you did in mere dissimulation, how must you be therein justified?
P. Very good: so far then you must be justified by your godliness, love, obedience, mortification, innocency and works. And what if you be charged as an Hypocrite to have done all that you did in meer dissimulation, how must you be therein justified?
Lib. By denying the charge, and appeal to God that I was sincere.
P. So then, your sincerity is so far your justifying righteousness. And what if you are charged with Apostasy, that you fell from Grace, must you not be justified by pleading your Perseverance?
P. So then, your sincerity is so far your justifying righteousness. And what if you are charged with Apostasie, that you fell from Grace, must you not be justified by pleading your Perseverance?
Lib. These are none of the Justification which the Scripture speaketh of: which is only against true accusations, and not against false ones.
