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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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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.
But its a farther act of injustice in you, in alleging me Apol. pag. 8. saying that some conditions are impulsive causes, when I told you it is not qua conditions, but only as materially there is somewhat in them that is meritorious. I doubt not but the same thing may be the matter of a cause and a condition.
But its a farther act of injustice in you, in alleadging me Apol. pag. 8. saying that some conditions are impulsive causes, when I told you it is not qua conditions, but only as materially there is somewhat in them that is meritorious. I doubt not but the same thing may be the matter of a cause and a condition.
I shall now return to your Lect. of Justification, and there speak to the other passage in your preface, about justifying Repentance and Love, &c.