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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.
The Major is hence evident: In that justifying faith being the condition of our Justification, must needs be the great Mark to know by, whether we are justified or no: But if it could not be known to be sincere it self, in vain is it made a ⟨p. 364⟩Mark to know our state by: yea or a Condition, almost, when a man can never tell when he performeth it. The Minor I have endeavoured to prove in an Additional Chap. to the third part of my Book of Rest, to which for brevity, I refer you. Dr. Stoughton, I have there showed you, saith as I: A•esius saith, Medul. l. 1. c. •. §. 4. quanvis fides praesuppmat semper notitiā Evangelii, nulla tamen datur in quoquā cognitio salutifera, & ab illa quo in quibusdam non salvandis reperitur, diversa, nif• consequenter ad actum istū voluntatis, & ab ipso dependens. Job. 7.17. and 8.31.32. 1 John. 2.3. I doubt not but (in the Intenseness of Degree) there is a difference between the Intellectual acts (as Knowledge and Assent) in a Saint and a wicked man: but if any think that they are in themselves discernible, I would he would tell me one Mark of the difference. In their different Effects on the Will, I know they are discernible.
The Major is hence evident: In that justifying faith being the condition of our Justification, must needs be the great Mark to know by, whether we are justified or no: But if it could not be known to be sincere it self, in vain is it made a ⟨p. 364⟩Mark to know our state by: yea or a Condition, almost, when a man can never tell when he performeth it. The Minor I have endeavoured to prove in an Additional Chap. to the third part of my Book of Rest, to which for brevity, I refer you. Dr. Stoughton, I have there shewed you, saith as I: A•esius saith, Medul. l. 1. c. •. §. 4. quāvis fides praesuppmat semper notitiā Evangelii, nulla tamen datur in quoquā cognitio salutifera, & ab illa quo in quibusdam non salvandis reperitur, diversa, nif consequenter ad actum istū voluntatis, & ab ipso dependens.