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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. First [Only] is again left out in the Major proposition, and so I grant it: But if it be implied that faith must look to him for Justification only in that notion as he justifieth us, yea only as he meriteth Justification, then I deny it, and you say nothing to prove it. Secondly, The exclusive of your Minor is a dangerous error: Christ freeth us from the curse by Justifying us as a King, and teaching, and ruling, and sanctifying us; and not only ⟨p. 65⟩by becoming a curse for us: For if you here put in [Only] you plainly exclude all his Obedience as such, and much of it materially: for it is not a cursed thing to obey God. The Law curseth for disobeying: therefore Obeying is not the Curse, nor is it materially a Curse to Love God, and Trust him, and be zealous for his Glory, &c. The whole office of Christ is employed in freeing us from the Curse: and when Paul saith, he was made a Curse to free us, he never said or thought that he did nothing else to free us; for an hundred texts do tell us of more.
Repl. First [Only] is again left out in the Major proposition, and so I grant it: But if it be implyed that faith must look to him for Justification only in that notion as he justifieth us, yea only as he meriteth Justification, then I deny it, and you say nothing to prove it. Secondly, The exclusive of your Minor is a dangerous error: Christ freeth us from the curse by Justifying us as a King, and teaching, and ruling, and sanctifying us; and not only ⟨p. 65⟩by becoming a curse for us: For if you here put in [Only] you plainly exclude all his Obedience as such, and much of it materially: for it is not a cursed thing to obey God. The Law curseth for disobeying: therefore Obeying is not the Curse, nor is it materially a Curse to Love God, and Trust him, and be zealous for his Glory, &c. The whole office of Christ is imployed in freeing us from the Curse: and when Paul saith, he was made a Curse to free us, he never said or thought that he did nothing else to free us; for an hundred texts do tell us of more.