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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 23: How Faith justifieth; and how it is imputed to us for Righteousness.
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.
§. 30. Obj. But it is not Faith in, and of it self that's meant, but as connoting the Object.
Ans. The latter clause is true: it is Faith, as connoting the Object, Christ: But the former is a contradiction. For Faith it self essentially connoteth the Object: If you speak not of Faith in genere (for it is not any kind of Faith that is our righteousness) but of the Christian, or New Covenant Faith in specie, who knoweth not that the Object specifieth it? And therefore if it be Christian faith, as connoting the Object, it is Christian faith as Christian faith.
§. 31. But will any sober Christian deny, that […]ur righteousness in one sense, and Faith […]innate […] in another, and that both are accord[…]ed to us? How fain would some men ⟨p. 277⟩differ, if they could, or seem to do it, when they do not?
§. 31. But will any sober Christian deny, that 〈…〉ur righteousness in one sence, and Faith 〈…〉inate 〈…〉 in another, and that both are accord〈…〉ed to us? How fain would some men ⟨p. 277⟩differ, if they could, or seem to do it, when they do not?