A26923:845
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
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.
CHAP. XX. Of the Nature of Saving-Faith.
§. 1. SO much of this came in before on the by, as will excuse my brevity here. I have before showed, That the Faith now in question is not merely our general Belief and Trust in God, as a part of our Holiness, but the mediate Belief and Trust in God our Redeemer and our Saviour, which is made the Condition of the Covenant, & the means of our sanctification: And also that as the editions of the Covenant vary, and promulgation of it, so it is not the same degree or acts of Faith, as to the particular credenda or Articles to be believed, that was and is necessary to all persons in all times.
§. 1. SO much of this came in before on the by, as will excuse my brevity here. I have before shewed, That the Faith now in question is not meerly our general Belief and Trust in God, as a part of our Holiness, but the mediate Belief and Trust in God our Redeemer and our Saviour, which is made the Condition of the Covenant, & the means of our sanctification: And also that as the editions of the Covenant vary, and promulgation of it, so it is not the same degree or acts of Faith, as to the particular credenda or Articles to be believed, that was and is necessary to all persons in all times.
§. 2. Though the word [Belief] in English, and Assent in Latin, signify strictly only the act of the Understanding, and Saving Faith is oft named from one act, yet really that Faith which in Scripture is made the Condition of Pardon and Salvation, doth essentially contain the Acts of every Faculty, even Assent, Consent, and Affiance;