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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.
Argum. 1. If Paul speak not only of Justification as begun, but as continued, then the Faith which he opposeth to works is not only one numerical Act. (For there must needs go some other Numerical Act before it, or else the person could not be justified by faith before) But the Antecedent is true, as I prove from Rom. 4.18, 19. and Gal. 3. If Paul prove Justification by faith, from the instance of Abraham's believing after that he was justified, then he speaketh not only of Justification as begun (or of our first Being justified) But the Antecedent is plain in the Text compared with Gen. 12. and 13 and 14. and 15. Abraham was a justified man before he believed the Promise of Sarah's having a Son.
Argum. 1. If Paul speak not only of Justification as begun, but as continued, then the Faith which he opposeth to works is not only one numerical Act. (For there must needs go some other Numerical Act before it, or else the person could not be justified by faith before) But the Antecedent is true, as I prove from Rom. 4.18, 19. and Gal. 3. If Paul prove Justification by faith, from the instance of Abrahams believing after that he was justified, then he speaketh not only of Justification as begun (or of our first Being justified) But the Antecedent is plain in the Text compared with Gen. 12. and 13 and 14. and 15. Abraham was a justified man before he believed the Promise of Sara's having a Son.
Argum. 2 If a true Believer have a justifying Faith after his first Justification, even as long as he liveth, then the Faith which Paul opposeth to works is not only one numerical Act (because that first Numerical Act doth not continue with us.) But the Antecedent is true, as appeareth 1. from the forementioned Instance of Abraham. 2, From the necessity of a continued Active Justification: For the Passive else would cease, and we should be unjustified. If God did not continue to forgive us, and still actively repute us just, and accept us as just and impute Righteousness to us, and his Gospel-Grant did not continually justify us, (as every Fundamentum continually causeth the Relation,) we should cease to be justified: And Gods active Justification continueth not without the continuance