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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
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The next Point you come to about the Nature and Object of Faith, you are larger upon, through a mistake of my words and meaning. I know not therefore how to Answer your Arguments till I have first told you my sense, and better stated the Question.
THe next Point you come to about the Nature and Object of Faith, you are larger upon, through a mistake of my words and meaning. I know not therefore how to Answer your Arguments till I have first told you my sence, and better stated the Question.
Indeed that in pag. 11. of Rest, I apprehended my self, so obvious to misconstruction, that I have corrected it in the second Edition (which is now printed.) Yet 1. I spoke not of faith as Justifying, but as the condition of Salvation, which contains more then that which is the condition of our first justification. 2. I never termed those Gospel-Precepts, which are not in some way proper to the Gospel. And for the next words [That subjection to Christ is an Essential part of faith.] I confess I do not only take it for a certain Truth, but also of so great moment, that I am glad you have bent your strength against it, and thereby occasioned me to search more throughly. But then, if you think (as you seem to do) that by [Subjection] I mean [Actual Obedience] you quite mistake me: for I have ⟨p. 345⟩fully opened my mind to you about this in my Aphoris. that speak only of the subjection of the Heart; and not of the Actual Obedience, which is the practise of it. I speak but of the Acceptation of Christ for our Lord, or the Consent thereto▪ and so giving up our selves to be his Disciples, Servants or Subjects. This I maintain to be an Essential part of justifying Faith, in the strict and proper sense of that word.
Indeed that in pag. 11. of Rest, I apprehended my self, so obvious to misconstruction, that I have corrected it in the second Edition (which is now printed.) Yet 1. I spoke not of faith as Justifying, but as the condition of Salvation, which contains more then that which is the condition of our first justification. 2. I neuer termed those Gospel-Precepts, which are not in some way proper to the Gospel. And for the next words [That subjection to Christ is an Essential part of faith.] I confess I do not only take it for a certain Truth, but also of so great moment, that I am glad you have bent your strength against it, and thereby occasioned me to search more throughly. But then, if you think (as you seem to do) that by [Subjection] I mean [Actual Obedience] you quite mistake me: for I have