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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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Answ. I hope not so many as you fear, or affirm. First, all the Doctors and people of your judgement do not: And if you thought those so exceeding few among Christians, you would not take me for so singular as you do. 2. None of the truly sanctified are such as you here affirm. 3. The multitude of groundless presumers of Free Grace are not such. And truly though I doubt Justiciaries are too common, I do not think that such Presumptuous ones are so small a Remnant. 4. The Libertines and Antinomians, and many other Sects of their mind, are none of this great number. 5. I will yet hope for all this, that you cannot prove it of the Doctors and people of half the Christian world. Their hearts God knows. And I will not yet believe that in their Doctrine about Justification by works, the Greek Churches, the Armenians, Jacobites, Copti's, Abasine•, &c. do fasten on such dangerous sands, or differ so much from ⟨p. 94⟩you. 6. I heard as eminent Divines as most I know (some yet living) in a public meeting say, that Bishop Usher and Mr. Gataker affirmed, that the Papists did not fundamentally differ from us in the Doctrine of Justification.
Answ. I hope not so many as you fear, or affirm. First, all the Doctors and people of your judgement do not: And if you thought those so exceeding few among Christians, you would not take me for so singular as you do. 2. None of the truly sanctified are such as you here affirm. 3. The multitude of groundless presumers of Free Grace are not such. And truly though I doubt Justiciaries are too common, I do not think that such Presumptuous ones are so small a Remnant. 4. The Libertines and Antinomians, and many other Sects of their mind, are none of this great number. 5. I will yet hope for all this, that you cannot prove it of the Doctors and people of half the Christian world. Their hearts God knows. And I will not yet believe that in their Doctrine about Justification by works, the Greek Churches, the Armenians, Jacobites, Copti's, Abasine•, &c. do fasten on such dangerous sands, or differ so much from ⟨p. 94⟩you. 6. I heard as eminent Divines as most I know (some yet living) in a publick meeting say, that Bishop Ʋsher and Mr. Gataker affirmed, that the Papists did not fundamentally differ from us in the Doctrine of Justification.