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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 never used or heard such a collection. All good works are debts to God; but our collection is, that works which are supposed by men to make the reward of Debt, and not of Grace, are excluded.
Treat. But if this be seriously thought on, it makes strongly against them; for the Apostles Argument is à Genere: if it be by works, its of Debt: therefore there are not works of Debt, and works of no Debt.
Answ. 1. If the Apostle argue à Genere, then he argueth not from an Equivocal term; and therefore of no works but what fall under his Genus. 2. And the Apostles Genus cannot be any thing merely Physical, because his subject and discourse is moral: and therefore it is not every act that he excludeth. 3. Nor can it be every Moral Act that is his Genus: but only Works in the notion that he useth the word; that is, All such Works as Workmen do for hire, who expect to receive wages for the worth or desert of their works.
Answ. 1. If the Apostle argue à Genere, then he argueth not from an Equivocal term; and therefore of no works but what fall under his Genus. 2. And the Apostles Genus cannot be any thing meerly Physical, because his subject and discourse is moral: and therefore it is not every act that he excludeth. 3. Nor can it be every Moral Act that is his Genus: but only Works in the notion that he useth the word; that is, All such Works as Workmen do for hire, who expect to receive wages for the worth or desert of their works.