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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / 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.
Next you add [To be justified, notes a passion▪ which presupposeth an Action transient, not immanent, or only Gods purpose to justify:] Answer 1. So far as the Reception of a Relation may be called a Passion, this is true: And no doubt you are in the right, that it is not Actus immanens. But now, What transient Act it is, I remember very few Divines that once tell us; but only in general say, It is a Transient Act. ⟨p. 338⟩Now you and I that have adventured to enquire, do happen to be both singular from others, and differing between our selves, (only Mr. Rutherford, and some few others I find saying oft, that we are pardoned and justified by the Gospel: by which they seem to mean as I) But for your way of Justification by a sentence before the Angels, as I never met with any that judged that to be our Justification by Faith, so as I have said, it seems to me very groundless and strange. And then, if yours stand not, mine only must, for any thing that is yet discovered, that I have seen, for I know of none that tells us of any third,
Next you add [To be justified, notes a passion▪ which presupposeth an Action transient, not immanent, or only Gods purpose to justifie:] Answer 1. So far as the Reception of a Relation may be called a Passion, this is true: And no doubt you are in the right, that it is not Actus immanens. But now, What transient Act it is, I remember very few Divines that once tell us; but only in general say, It is a Transient Act. ⟨p. 338⟩Now you and I that have adventured to enquire, do happen to be both singular from others, and differing between our selves, (only Mr. Rutherford, and some few others I find saying oft, that we are pardoned and justified by the Gospel: by which they seem to mean as I) But for your way of Justification by a sentence before the Angels, as I never met with any that judged that to be our Justification by Faith, so as I have said, it seems to me very groundless and strange. And then, if yours stand not, mine only must, for any thing that is yet discovered, that I have seen, for I know of none that tells us of any third,