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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.
Repl. It was the thing I had to do, to prove that Rom. 3.24. and those other texts, are not exclusive of all but his blood, and that the word Only is no more meant, then it is expressed in them. And now you grant it me: And needs must do it, while Scripture tells us, that by the Obedience of one, many are made Righteous, Rom. 5.19. and that he is Risen for our Justification, Rom. 4 •5. and that Righteousness shall be imputed to us, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. ver. 24. ⟨p. 59⟩and It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that dyed, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God; who also maketh Intercession for us, Rom. 8 33, 34. he that believeth all these texts will not add only to the first, at least if he understand them; for they do not contradict each other. Well! but you marvel at my question! I am glad of that! Are we so well agreed, that you marvel at my supposition of this difference? To satisfy you, my question implied this Argument. If the Resurrection, Intercession, &c. be not in those texts excluded, nor faith in them, then we may not add only to interpret them; but &c. Ergo.
Repl. It was the thing I had to do, to prove that Rom. 3.24. and those other texts, are not exclusive of all but his blood, and that the word Only is no more meant, then it is expressed in them. And now you grant it me: And needs must do it, while Scripture tells us, that by the Obedience of one, many are made Righteous, Rom. 5.19. and that he is Risen for our Justification, Rom. 4 •5. and that Righteousness shall be imputed to us, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. ver. 24.