A26923:878
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.
§. 31. Sometimes we say, That saving Faith is a fiducial-practical Assent to the Truth of the Gospel, and Consent to the Covenant of Grace; or an Accepting of all the Benefits of the Covenant, as they are, and on the terms offered; or an Accepting of Christ and Life in, and with him there offered us.
§. 32. Sometimes we say, It is a practical Affiance, or trusting on Christ as our only Saviour for Salvation, or to bring us to God and glory: And in all these and the like we speak truly, and mean the same thing; some terms being used on occasion, while the rest are implied, and to be understood.
§. 32. Sometimes we say, It is a practical Affiance, or trusting on Christ as our only Saviour for Salvation, or to bring us to God and glory: And in all these and the like we speak truly, and mean the same thing; some terms being used on occasion, while the rest are implyed, and to be understood.
§. 33. Those that will needs call no act by the name of Faith, but Assent, and confine it to the Intellect, do yet seem to differ with us but de nomine, about a Word, and not the Matter: For they confess, ⟨p. 235⟩if there concur not a Consent of the Will, it is not saving, but as some call it •ides informis; and so that Assent and Consent make up our necessary Condition, or means of our Union with Christ, or Interest in the Covenant-Rights or Gifts. And then seeing we are agreed so far of the matter, it's not worth much striving, whether one only, or both Acts shall be called Faith.