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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 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.
Proposition 9. Repentance from dead works, denying our our selves, renouncing our own Righteousness, &c. (much less external Obedience) are not the receptive condition of our Justification, as faith is, that is, Their nature is not to be an actual Acceptance of Christ that is, they are not faith and therefore are not designed on that account to be the Condition of our Justification.
Proposition 10. God doth not justify us by Imputing our own faith to us in stead of perfect Obedience to the Law, as if it were sufficient, or esteemed by him sufficient to supply its place; For it is Christs Righteousness that in point of value and merit doth supply its place: nor doth any work of ours justify us by satisfying for our sins: for that's the work of Christ the Mediator: Our faith and love and obedience, which are for the receiving and improving of him and his Righteousness and so stand in full subordination to him, are not to be made co-partners of his office or honour.