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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.
Reply. Concedo totum: The conclusion can be but this [therefore faith must go to the blood of Christ for atonement] Who ever questioned this I But your Thesis which you set at the Head of your Arguments, was [Faith in Christ qua Lord doth not justify] which is little kin to any of your Arguments.
Reply. Concedo totum: The conclusion can be but this [therefore faith must go to the blood of Christ for attonement] Who ever questioned this I But your Thesis which you set at the Head of your Arguments, was [Faith in Christ qua Lord doth not justifie] which is little kin to any of your Arguments.
But in the explication, you have here, at last, the term Only, and therefore I may take that to be supposed in the Argument; But then with that Addition. I deny your Minor. The texts mentioned say nothing to prove it.
Rom. 3.25. hath no only in it, nor any thing exclusive of the other acts of Christ: And if it had, yet it would not follow ⟨p. 58⟩that all other acts of our faith were excluded. As his blood is the meritorious cause, and so the foundation of all the benefits, and so all the Applying Causes are supposed in the mention of it and not excluded so are all other acts of our faith in the mention of that act.