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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
Question. Whether the Faith which Paul opposeth to Works in the Poi… › Part
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2. To be justified by Faith in Christ as Christ, and so as Rising, Teaching, Pardoning, Ruling, Judging, as well as satisfying, i.e. as the Saviour that hath undertaken all this, is not in Pauls sense to be justified by works: therefore it is the true Justification by Faith.
3. It is therefore unsound to make any one Act or part of Faith the fides qua Justificans, and the other Essential parts to be the fides qua justificat, when no more can be said of any but that it is fides ex qua justificamur, and that may be said of all.
4. Though Faith be an Acceptance of Christ and Life as offered in the Gospel, so that its very Nature or Essence is morally Receptive, which may tolerably be called its Metaphorical Passive Instrumentality; yet are we not justified by it qua talis, that is, qua fides, and so not quatenus Instrumentum tale Metaphoricum, vel Acceptatio, vel Receptio moralis, but qua conditio Testamenti vel faederis prastita.