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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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Preface. But I need not run to this; for my Arguments militate against works, at works justifying under any pretended Notion whatsoever.
Answer. By the help of this, I shall interpret all your Arguments. And if so, then they militate against the act of faith justifying under the pretended notion of an Instrument, unless ⟨p. 101⟩you will say that faith is no Act, or Instrumentality is no pretended notion.
Preface. And this maketh me admire how my learned Brother could let fall one passage wherein he may be so palpably and ocularly convinced to the contrary by the first looking upon my Arguments; that which he saith is [the strength of my Arguments, lies upon a supposition, that conditions have a moral efficiency]— There is no one of these ten Arguments brought against Justification by works, as a Condition sine qua non, that is built upon this supposition, or hath any dependence on it, only in the fourth Argument after their strength is delivered, I do ex abundanti, show that a Condition in a Covenant strictly taken hath a moral efficiency.
Preface. And this maketh me admire how my learned Brother could let fall one passage wherein he may be so palpably and ocularly convinced to the contrary by the first looking upon my Arguments; that which he saith is [the strength of my Arguments, lies upon a supposition, that conditions have a moral efficiency]— There is no one of these ten Arguments brought against Justification by works, as a Condition sine qua non, that is built upon this supposition, or hath any dependance on it, only in the fourth Argument after their strength is delivered, I do ex abundanti, shew that a Condition in a Covenant strictly taken hath a moral efficiency.