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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. Your scope in that page seems to be against any distinguishing whatsoever about works, in this proposition, We are justified by faith, and not by works, If so, that we must not run to any distinction, but say, that in every motion or sense, Works are excluded, and do justify in none, then I profess it is past my utmost skill to justify you for accusing Althamer as you do, for saying, Mentiris Jacob in caput tuum: Yea if he had upon the reading of Mat. 12.36. risen higher, and said, Mentiris Christ in caput tuum. For sure he that saith [By thy words thou shalt be justified] Or by works a man unjustified, and not by faith only] can no way possibly be excused from that crime, if no distinction may verify his words; but they must then be taken as absolutely false: which I will not be persuaded of.
Answ. Your scope in that page seems to be against any distinguishing whatsoever about works, in this proposition, We are justified by faith, and not by works, If so, that we must not run to any distinction, but say, that in every motion or sense, Works are excluded, and do justifie in none, then I profess it is past my uttmost skill to justifie you for accusing Althamer as you do, for saying, Mentiris Jacobe in caput tuum: Yea if he had upon the reading of Mat. 12.36. risen higher, and said, Mentiris Christe in caput tuum. For sure he that saith [By thy words thou shalt be justified] Or by works a man unjustified, and not by faith only] can no way possibly be excused from that crime, if no distinction may verifie his words; but they must then be taken as absolutely false: which I will not be perswaded of.
Treat. pag. 219. Serm. 23. Observ. That even the most holy and regenerate man is not Justified by the works of grace which he doth. This truth is the more diligently to be asserted, by how much the error that confronts it is more specious and refined, and maintained by such abettors, whose repute is not so easily cast off as the former we spake of.