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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. You yet tell me it was fittest for Paul to say, by faith in his blood; because he intends to connote both what we are justified by ex parte Christi, and what we are justified by ex parte nostri; but the former principally. To this I say. If this were fittest for Paul, then it is unfit for any to come in with Animadversions, and tell us of any other thing ex parte Christi, or ex parte nostri for Justification. I pray you rest here and we are well agreed. Here is Christs Priestly Office on his part alone, and I am resolved to look no further.
Mr. Blake. You yet tell me it was fittest for Paul to say, by faith in his blood; because he intends to connote both what we are justified by ex parte Christi, and what we are justified by ex parte nostri; but the former principally. To this I say. If this were fittest for Paul, then it is unfit for any to come in with Animiadversions, and tell us of any other thing ex parte Christi, or ex parte nostri for Justification. I pray you rest here and we are well agreed. Here is Christs Priestly Office on his part alone, and I am resolved to look no further.
Repl. Though I may not hope to change you, if you are Resolved, yet I may take leave to render a reason of my contrary as peremptory Resolution: I am resolved to look further ex parte Christi, then to his blood, yea or his whole Merit yea or whole Priest-hood for my Justification; even to whole Christ, and in special to his Regal constitution and sentence. Yet I rest where you desire me, as to the Truth of what I said; and if we are agreed, its better then I can perceive in your other words. First, Though Paul there mention the Priestly office alone, yet that's not all his Epistles, nor all the Scriptures; nor doth he here exclude the rest.
Secondly, It may be fittest to Pauls design in that particular discourse to mention faith in his blood, and yet it may be fit for another to come in with animadversions, and tell you of more necessary both ex parte Christi & nostri. Its common to express our meaning of a whole in a summary notion taken from a chief part: And indeed in Political discourses it is hard to meet with a fitter way of expression.