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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 4. Accordingly God hath joined these together in his Promise and constitution, making faith the summary and receptive Condition, and making the said acts of Repentance, self-denial renouncing our own righteousness & disclaiming in heart Justification by the works of the Law, and the renouncing of all other Saviours, also the desiring and loving of Christ offered, and the willing of God as our God, and the renouncing of all other Gods and so of the world, flesh and devil; at least in the resolution of the heart; I say making these the dispositive Conditions, which are ever implied when faith only is expressed, some of them as subservient to faith, and perhaps some of them as real parts of faith it self. (Of which more anon.)
Proposition 4. Accordingly God hath joyned these together in his Promise and constitution, making faith the summary and receptive Condition, and making the said acts of Repentance, self-denyal renouncing our own righteousness & disclaiming in heart Justification by the works of the Law, and the renouncing of all other Saviours, also the desiring and loving of Christ offered, and the willing of God as our God, and the renouncing of all other Gods and so of the world, flesh and devil; at least in the resolution of the heart; I say making these the dispositive Conditions, which are ever implyed when faith only is expressed, some of them as subservient to faith, and perhaps some of them as real parts of faith it self. (Of which more anon.)
Proposition 5. The Gospel promiseth Justification to all that will Believe, (or are Believers.) To be a Believer and to be a Disciple of Christ, in Scripture sense is all one, and so is it to be a Disciple and to be a Christian: therefore the sense of the promise is, that we shall be justified, if we become true Christians or Disciples of Christ; and therefore justifying faith comprehendeth all that is essential to our Disciple•ship or Christianity as its constitutive causes.