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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.
More particularly as Christianity, in sensu famosiori is the saving entertainment of Christ in the soul; and faith, in sensu famosiori, is that which is called Justifying saving Faith; and a Church member, in sensu famosiori, is such a true Christian; so it is true Faith and Christianity whose Profession is thus necessary: and if there be but a bare profession without the thing ⟨p. 14⟩Professed, these are called Christians or believers but Analogically or (as our Divines commonly tell the Papists) Equivocally.
More part•cularly as Christianity, in sensu famosiori is the saving entertainment of Christ in the soul; and faith, in sensu famosiori, is that which is called Iustifying saving Faith; and a Church member, in sensu famosiori, is such a true Christian; so it is true Faith and Christianity whose Profession is thus necessary: and if there be but a bare profession without the thing ⟨p. 14⟩Professed, these are called Christians or believers but Analogically or (as our Divines commonly tell the Papists) Equivocally.
The Faith thus to be professed must be considered, in its Acts, and in its Objects. The first Act is the understandings assent to the truth of the Revelation, upon the credit of the Revealer, which Implieth, yea formally containeth a crediting of his Veracity, and so an Affiance therein. 2. A Consent or Willingness that Christ be ours on the Gospel terms; or an Accepting Christ and life, as offered: which Scripture calleth the Receiving of Christ Jesus the Lord, Joh. 1.10, 11. Col. 26. which is still implied in the Affiance or Recumbency by which the Act of Faith is so oft entitled in Scripture, and which must be added.
The Faith thus to be professed must be considered, in its Acts, and in its Objects. The first Act is the understandings assent to the truth of the Revelation, upon the credit of the Revealer, which Implyeth, yea formally containeth a crediting of his Veracity, and so an Affiance therein. 2. A Consent or Willingness that Christ be ours on the Gospel terms; or an Accepting Christ and life, as offered: which Scripture calleth the Receiving of Christ Jesus the Lord,