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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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Argument 2. Those works which a man cannot be justified without, make not the Reward to be of debt and not of Grace: But there are some works that a man cannot be justified without, Jam. 2.24. Matthew 12.37. what ever they be, some they are.
Argument 3. Those works which a man cannot be saved without, make not the Reward to be of Debt and not of Grace. But there are some works that we cannot be saved without. Therefore there are some works that make not the Reward of Debt and not of Grace.
The Major is proved by the express exclusion of works in this sense, from salvation: both as begun, and as consummate, 2 Tim. 1.9. who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but his own purpose and grace, &c. Ephes. 2.8, 9. For by Grace ye are saved, through faith, and not of your selves, it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast, Tit. 3.5, 6, 7. Not by works of Righteousness which we have done, but according to his Mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, — that being justified by his Grace, we should be made Heirs according to the hope of eternal life, Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,]