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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.
Proposition 6. No work or act of man is any true proper cause of his justification, (as Justification is commonly taken in the Gospel:) neither Principal or Instrumental. The highest Interest that they can have, is but to be a condition of our Justification ⟨p. 76⟩and so a Dispositio moralis, which therefore some call cansa dispositiva, and some causa sine qua non, and its indeed but a Nominal cause, and truly no cause at all.
Proposition 6. No work or act of man is any true proper cause of his justification, (as Justification is commonly taken in the Gospel:) neither Principal or Instrumental. The highest Interest that they can have, is but to be a condition of our Justification ⟨p. 76⟩and so a Dispositio moralis, which therefore some call cansa dispositiva, and some causa sine qua non, and its indeed but a Nominall cause, and truly no cause at all.
Proposition 7. Whatsoever works do stand in opposition to Christ, or disjunct from him, yea or that stand not in a due subordination to him, are so far from Justifying even as conditions, that they are sins which do deserve condemnation.
Proposition 8. Works, as taken for the Imperate Acts of Obedience external, distinct from the first Radical Graces, are not so much as conditions of our Justification as begun, or our being put into a Justified state.