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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.
Argument 12. If there be many Acts besides Faith in Christ, attendant on it, and subservient to it, which are none of the works which Paul excludeth, and opposeth faith to; then the Essential Acts of faith it self are none of those works. But the Antecedent is true, as I prove in some instances:
For a man to repent of sin, to confess it, to believe and confess that we are unworthy of any Mercy, and unable to justify our selves, or make satisfaction for our sias, and that we are in absolute necessity of Christ, having no Righteousness, Sanctification or Sufficiency of our own, to take God for our Father reconciled in Christ, and to Love him accordingly: to forgive our Brethren from the sense of Christs forgiving us: to show our Faith by fruitful works and words. When Paul saith, Rom. 4.4, 5. [To him that worketh the Reward is not of Grace] the meaning is not [To him that repenteth to him that denieth himself and his own Righteousness to his Justification, to him that confesseth his sin, that loveth God as a reconciled Father in Christ, &c,] and when he saith, [To him that worketh not, but believeth] the meaning is not [to him that loveth not God, to him that repenteth not, that forgiveth not others, &c. but believeth.
For a man to repent of sin, to confess it, to believe and confess that we are unworthy of any Mercy, and unable to justifie our selves, or make satisfaction for our sias, and that we are in absolute necessity of Christ, having no Righteousness, Sanctification or Sufficiency of our own, to take God for our Father reconciled in Christ, and to Love him accordingly: to forgive our Brethren from the sense of Christs forgiving us: to shew our Faith by fruitfull works and words. When Paul saith, Rom. 4.4, 5. [To him that worketh the Reward is not of Grace] the meaning is not [To him that repenteth to him that denieth himself and his own Righteousness to his Justification, to him that confesseth his sin, that loveth God as a reconciled Father in Christ, &c,] and when he saith, [To him that worketh not, but believeth] the meaning is not [to him that loveth not God, to him that repenteth not, that forgiveth not others, &c. but believeth.