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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
But yet that I be not mistaken (which is a danger not easily escaped when I have done the best I can to be understood) I shall further tell you what I mean by saving faith, that is, what I take it to be. 2. What I mean by profession, and what I take that to be. 3. What are those other sorts that stand up in Competition with this, as a sufficient qualification. 4. And then I shall adjoin some necessary distinctions. 5. And so lay down my thoughts in some propositions. 6. And then prove that which determineth the question. 7. And lastly I shall answer the Arguments that are brought against it, and for the contrary Claim.
But yet that I be not mistaken (which is a danger not easily escaped when I have done the best I can to be understood) I shall further tell you what I mean by saving faith, that is, what I take it to be. 2. What I mean by profession, and what I take that to be. 3. What are those other sorts that stand up in Competition with this, as a sufficient qualification. 4. And then I shall adjoyn some necessary distinctions. 5. And so lay down my thoughts in some propositions. 6. And then prove that which determineth the question. 7. And lastly I shall answer the Arguments that are brought against it, and for the contrary Claim.
And note through the whole, that if I do at any time call this profession a Tile, it is in compliance with other mens language, it being my own sense, that neither the •aith nor the profession is properly a Title, which is fundamentum juris, and so an efficient cause, but only a condition of a Title. 2. That if I say it [giveth] Right or Title, I mean not efficiently, as if we could give a Right to our selves, but only that it is the condition which performed by us, doth morally qualify us to receive it as freely given.
And note through the whole, that if I do at any time call this profession a Ttile, it is in compliance with other mens language, it being my own sence, that neither the •aith nor the profession is properly a Title, which is fundamentum juris, and so an efficient cause, but only a condition of a Title. 2. That if I say it [giveth] Right or Title, I mean not efficiently, as if we could give a Right to our selves, but only that it is the condition which performed by us, doth morally qualifie us to receive it as freely given.