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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.
Having done with this, I proceed to your Additional Paper, which I lately received, and for which I am also really thankful to you. But the Answer needs not be long. 1. You think the 66. Thes. hardly reconcilable with the words cited out of pag, 191 of that of Baptism, Rom. 3.25 & 5.9. But I see not the least appearance of a contradiction Christ whom justifying Faith receives, doth Redeem us by his blood, and not chiefly by his Principality; and he saves us as a Saviour, and ruleth us as a Ruler, &c. But that faith which on our part is the condition of our interest in him & his Benefits, is the Believing in, or receiving Christ as Christ, or as he is offered to us in the Gospel (as the Assembly in their Catechism well express it. Davenant, Culverwell, Throgmorton, Mr. Norton of New England (Catech▪ pag. 29.) and many more say as I in this: but I will not weary you with citations having been so tedious already. But I am glad to feel you yielding to the Truth, (for it is a weighty Point) as you seem in the next words, where you say that Christs Death is the sole or chief object of Faith as Justifying. If you yield once that it and his Priestly Office is not the sole Object, I will never contend with you about their Precedency, which is chief. I have confessed to you, that it is a fuller (and ordinarily fitter) phrase, to say, we are justified by faith in his blood, then to say, we are justified by faith in his Government, because it pointeth out Relatively the causality in the Object, and not only the conditionality in the Act. But I think when you respect the said condition especially, that then it is the fittest speech to say, we are justified by faith in Christ.
HAving done with this, I proceed to your Additional Paper, which I lately received, and for which I am also really thankfull to you. But the Answer needs not be long. 1. You think the 66. Thes. hardly reconcilable with the words cited out of pag, 191 of that of Baptism,