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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.
Ephe. 1 7. and 1 John 1.7 do neither of them exclude either the other acts of Christ, or other acts of faith: Nay John seems to make somewhat else the condition on our part, then the belief in that blood only, when he saith there [If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin] Or if you think this [if] denoteth but a sign, yet other texts will plainly prove more.
To conclude, If I were to go only to the blood of Christ for atonement, yet it would not follow, that going to that blood only for it, is the only act of Faith on which Justification is promised or given me in the Gospel, as is before declared.
Mr. Blake. You demand, [Will you exclude his Obedience, Resurrection, intercession]? To which I only say, I marvel at the question: If I exclude these, I exclude his blood: His shedding of blood was in Obedience, John 10.18. Phil. 2.8. his Resurrection was his freedom from the bands of death, and an evidence of our discharge by blood: His Intercession is founded on his blood. He intercedes not as we by bare petition, but by merit: He presents his blood as the high Priest in the Holy of Holies.
Mr. Blake. You demand, [Will you exclude his Obedience, Resurrection, intercession]? To which I only say, I marvell at the question: If I exclude these, I exclude his blood: His shedding of blood was in Obedience,