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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.
Mr. Blake proceeds. [And I much marvel that this distinction, that everywhere else would pass, and be confessed to be of necessity, to avoid confusion in those distinct capacities in which men usually act, should here not alone be questioned, but thus branded. Does not every man that undergoes various relations, variously act according to them? And do not men that make address, address themselves in like variety? He that is at once a Husband, a Parent, a Master, a School-master, a Physician, acts variously according to all of these capacities. Some come to him as a Father, some as a Master, some as a Teacher; all of them come to him as a Physician: But only they that come to him as a Physician are cured by him. Believers through faith go to Christ that hears all the Relations mentioned. But as they seek satisfaction in his blood-shedding, which is an act of his Priesthood, they are justified.]
Repl. I ever granted that we are justified by trusting in Christs blood: But not [only] by that.
Secondly, It was God that sought satisfaction in Christs ⟨p. 49⟩blood, the Believer seeks for the fruit of that satisfaction.
Secondly, It was God that sought satisfaction in Christs ⟨p. 49⟩blood, the Believer seeks for the fruit of that satisfactition.