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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.
1 John 5.11, 12. [God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in his son: He that hath the son hath life; and he that hath not the son hath not life.] So that accepting Christ as Christ, makes him ours (by way of condition;) and then our life of Justification and sanctification is in him and comes with him.
Coming to Christ as Christ, is the sole undivided condition ⟨p. 34⟩of Life, John 5 40. Ye will not come to me that ye may have Life.]
Yet here I must crave that Ingenuous dealing of the Reader, that he will observe (once for all, and not expect that I should on every call recite it) that though I maintain the unity of the condition, not only in opposition to a separating division, but also to a distributive division of Conditions; yet I still maintain these three things. First, that quoad materiale Conditionis, that faith which is the condition, doth believe all the essential parts of Christ office distinctly; and so it doth not look to his Exaltation in stead of his Humiliation; nor è Contra; but looks to be Ransomed by him as a sacrifice, and meritoriously justified by his Merits, and actually justified by him as King, Judge, and Benefactor, &c. And that it eyeth also distinctly those Benefits which salvation doth essentially consist in (at least.) And it takes Christ finally to Justify, Adopt, Sanctify, Glorify, &c. distinctly. But still its but one condition on which we have Title to all this.
Yet here I must crave that Ingenuous dealing of the Reader, that he will observe (once for all, and not expect that I should on every call recite it) that though I maintain the unity of the condition, not only in opposition to a separating division, but also to a distributive division of Conditions; yet I still maintain these three things. First, that quoad materiale Conditionis, that faith which is the condition, doth believe all the essential parts of Christ office distinctly; and so it doth not look to his Exaltation in stead of his Humiliation; nor è Contra; but looks to be Ransomed by him as a sacrifice, and meritoriously justified by his Merits, and actually justified by him as King, Judge, and Bnefactor, &c. And that it eyeth also distinctly those Benefits which salvation doth essentially consist in (at least.) And it takes Christ finally to Justifie, Adopt, Sanctifie, Glorifie, &c. distinctly. But still its but one condition on which we have Title to all this.