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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 have answered this fully in Colvinus. 1. Though Protestants oft say, that God saveth men for their obedience, and Scripture use the term [because] oft, yet I am willing to yield to you that men be not saved nor justified for any thing of their own, or for any conditions: But yet he would not justify them without the performance of some conditions; but would condemn them for the non-performance, even with a special condemnation, distinct from that which is for their sins against the Law.
Answ. I have answered this fully in Colvinus. 1. Though Protestants oft say, that God saveth men for their obedience, and Scripture use the term [because] oft, yet I am willing to yield to you that men be not saved nor justified for any thing of their own, or for any conditions: But yet he would not justifie them without the performance of some conditions; but would condemn them for the non-performance, even with a special condemnation, distinct from that which is for their sins against the Law.
2. Colvinus was the first man, and you are the second that ever I read (to my remembrance) saying that God justifieth men as sinners. A quatenus ad omne valet consequentia. If as sinners, then all sinners are justified. If not as performers of any Condition, then not as Believers! These things want proof.
Treat. ib. Lastly, that all works are excluded, is evident by the Apostles allegation out of David, who makes mans blessedness to be in this, that God imputeth righteousness without works.