A26886:512
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.
His concession in terms from 1 Pet. 3.21. he retracteth by an exposition of his words as spoken Rhetorically, and thinks that any one that ever read Rhetoric may know his sense; when there is such a Wood of Tropes and Schemes that such Novices may sooner be lost in them, then hunt out the sense of every Rhetorician. The proper sense, he takes to be [an egregious piece of affected non-sense] for then it were true that [justifying faith is a promise] Repl. It only follows that justifying faith is not only an Assent, but the wills consent to the covenant of grace, or that Christ be ours and we his; and this is heart-covenanting; and that the external verbal promising or covenanting with God, is the profession of this faith. And it is not my fault if I be put to tell you, that as long as you are such a stranger to the nature of justifying faith, as many such dark, though confident passages in your books do import, your Arguings will want salt, if not sense. I know this is like to displease: But what remedy?
His concession in terms from 1 Pet. 3.21. he retracteth by an exposition of his words as spoken Rhetorically, and thinks that ony one that ever read Rhetorick may know his sense; when there is such a Wood of Tropes and Schems that such Novices may sooner be lost in them, then hunt ont the sense of every Rhetorician. The proper sense, he takes to be [an egregious peice of affected non-sense] for then it were true that [justifying faith is a promise] Repl. It only follows that justifying faith is not only an Assent, but the wills consent to the covenant of grace, or that Christ be ours and we his; and this is heart-covenanting; and that the external verbal promising or covenanting with God, is the profession of this faith. And it is not my fault if I be put to tell you, that as long as you are such a stranger to the nature of justifying faith, as many such dark, though confident passages in your books do import, your Arguings will want salt, if not sense. I know this is like to displease: But what remedy?