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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 same answer serves to what you say in the eighth, and ninth, and tenth, being the same with that you say here. I marvel how you would form an Argument from 2 Cor. 5 21. Gal. 2.21 I Where you say, Obedience is not an essential part of Faith, I yield it willingly, taking Faith properly and strictly, and not in the largest improper sense. But that it justifies as immediately as it Receiveth him as King, as it doth in Receiving him as Priest, I shall take for proved, till you prove the lawfulness here of dividing Christ, and Faith, or distinguishing, and appropriating justifying to one respect, and excluding another in the same act of Believing, and the same Object Christ. And to what is said before, let me yet add this, 1. If Christ be not received as a true complete Saviour, except he be Received as King, then Faith justifies not as it Receiveth him for Priest only: (for you here confess that he justifies as he is Received as a Saviour.) But the Antecedent is evident: for as King he saveth his people from sin and Satan, and all their enemies, Ergo, &c.
The same answer serves to what you say in the eighth, and ninth, and tenth, being the same with that you say here. I marvail how you would form an Argument from 2 Cor. 5 21. Gal. 2.21 I Where you say, Obedience is not an essential part of Faith, I yield it willingly, taking Faith properly and strictly, and not in the largest improper sense. But that it justifies as immediatly as it Receiveth him as King, as it doth in Receiving him as Priest, I shall take for proved, till you prove the lawfulness here of dividing Christ, and Faith, or distinguishing, and appropriating justifying to one respect, and excluding another in the same act of Believing, and the same Object Christ. And to what is said before, let me yet add this, 1. If Christ be not received as a true compleat Saviour, except he be Received as King, then Faith justifies not as it Receiveth him for Priest only: (for you here confess that he justifies as he is Received as a Saviour.) But the Antecedent is evident: for as King he saveth his people from sin and Satan, and all their enemies, Ergo, &c.