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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. We say not that Jams calls them a condition; therefore we add not to him as his.
2. Every Exposition and application is an addition of another sort, but not as of the same.
3. I use not the active phrase that Works justify, agreeing so far with you, who note a difference between these sayings, Faith justifieth, and we are justified by faith: for all that Mr. Blake despiseth the observation, which perhaps he would scarce have done, if he had known that you had being guilty of it also.
3. I use not the active phrase that Works justifie, agreeing so far with you, who note a difference between these sayings, Faith justifieth, and we are justified by faith: for all that Mr. Blake despiseth the observation, which perhaps he would scarce have done, if he had known that you had being guilty of it also.
4. Scripture supposeth Grammar, Logic, Physics, &c. and no more is to be expected from it but its own part. If James tell you that we are justified by works, he doth not say that [Greek or Hebrew] is a verb, and [Greek or Hebrew] is a noun, and so of the rest; but he warranteth you to say so without any unjust addition, supposing that Grammar so call them; If the Scripture say, that God created the Heavens and the earth, it doth not say here in terms, that God was the efficient cause: but it warranteth you to say so: If it say, that Christ dyed for us, and was a Sacrifice for our sins, and hath obtained eternal redemption for us; yet it saith not that he is the meritorious cause, or the material cause of our Justification: But it will warrant you to say so, without the guilt of unjust additions. If you may say as a Grammarian and a Logician, when you meet with such words in Scripture, [These are Paronyma, and these Synonyma, and these Homonyma, and this is an universal, that a singular, that a particular, and that an indefinite; this is an efficient cause, that a material, formal or final; this is a noun, that a verb, the other a