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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.
Your fourth I wholly yield, if you speak of faith strictly, or as it Justifieth, and not in a large improper sense.
Your fourth I wholly yield, if you speak of faith strictly, or as it Justifieth, and not in a large improper sence.
Your fifth is grounded on the forementioned mistake of my meaning. And there needs no further answer, but only to tell you, that though sincere obedience to all Christs Laws be a part of the condition of our Justification as continued and consummate at Judgement; yet it follows not that every particular duty must be done▪ no more then that Adam must obey every particular Law before he were actually just. It is sufficient that there be no other defect in our Obedience, but what may stand with sincerity. The same Precept may command, or make Duty to one, and not to another, and so be no Precept ⟨p. 351⟩as to him. A man that lives but an hour after his conversion is, bound sincerely to obey Christ according to his Law: but he is not bound to build Churches, nor to do the work of twenty years. Christ may be received as King, (and is) in the same moment in which he is received as Justifier; and in that reception we covenant to obey him, and take him for our Lord to the death; but not to obey him on earth when we are dead; for we are then freed from these Laws, and come under the Laws of the Glorified.
Your fifth is grounded on the forementioned mistake of my meaning. And there needs no further answer, but only to tell you, that though sincere obedience to all Christs Lawes be a part of the condition of our Justification as continued and consummate at Judgement; yet it follows not that every particular duty must be done▪ no more then that Adam must obey every particular Law before he were actually just. It is sufficient that there be no other defect in our Obedience, but what may stand with sincerity. The same Precept may command, or make Duty to one, and not to another, and so be no Precept