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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. 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.
Answer. First, you confess it is your Assertion, that such Conditions have a moral efficiency. Secondly, I never said that you made that a Medium in all your Arguments, nor that you intended that as their strength; but that their strength lieth on that supposition; and if I have mistaken in that, I will not stand in it: But I think to show you that without that supposition your Arguments have no strength: which if I do, then judge at what you marvelled.
Answer. First, you confess it is your Assertion, that such Conditions have a moral efficiency. Secondly, I never said that you made that a Medium in all your Arguments, nor that you intended that as their strength; but that their strength lyeth on that supposition; and if I have mistaken in that, I will not stand in it: But I think to shew you that without that supposition your Arguments have no strength: which if I do, then judge at what you marvailed.