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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
Whether Works are a Condition of Justification? And so whether we a… › Part
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My next proof is from those texts that expressly promise the pardon of sin on condition of Repentance, Confession, &c. If Repentance, and other acts are made by the Gospel, conditions of pardon, (and our first general Pardon) then are they made conditions of our first admission into a state of Justification. But the Antecedent is plain, in Act. 2.38. Mar. 14. ⟨p. 82⟩Luke 13.35. Isa. 55.67. and 1.16, 17, 18. Ezek. 33.11, 16. and 18.28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Prov. 28.13. Act. 3.19. with many more. The Consequence is plain, in that Pardon is by very many made the whole of our Justification; and by others confessed a chief part; and by all its confessed to be made ours on the same terms as is Justification it self.
My next proof is from those texts that expresly promise the pardon of sin on condition of Repentance, Confession, &c. If Repentance, and other acts are made by the Gospel, conditions of pardon, (and our first general Pardon) then are they made conditions of our first admission into a state of Justification. But the Antecedent is plain, in Act. 2.38. Mar. 14. ⟨p. 82⟩Luke 13.35. Isa. 55.67. and 1.16, 17, 18.