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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
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.
Culverwell, not in any popular Sermon, but in a solid well approved Treatise of Faith, and not in common passages, but his very definition of faith, pag. 13.17. and after all concludes. pag. 19. [Thus we see that the very nature of faith, consisteth in the true Acceptation of Christ proclaimed in the Gospel] The next I cited (about the Definition of faith) was Mr. Throgmorton, who in his accurate Treatise of Faith (and not in any popular Sermons) and that many times over, doth make Faith to be the receiving Christ for Prophet, and only Rabbi, to be his Disciples, and as the only Way and Truth, and also as King, Head, Husband, Priest, &c. and by this we are made Partakers of him and all his benefits. pag. 6.29.31.82. &c. And for the great point that you stick at of Justification, I will repeat the words of two of those Authors which I have named: And 1. Of learned Conr. Bergius, in whom you shall have the Testimony of the Augustan Confession, Luther, Meutzer, &c. included, both about the nature and extent of Faith; about works Legal and Evangelical; about Justification as begun, and as continued, and the distinct conditions, and about the concurrence of Obedience, &c. Praxis Cathol. dissert. 7. pag. 973. &c. §. 41. Nec tamen negat quisquam fidem esse Obedientiam in sano sensu ex Rom. 1.5. & 6.17. & 10.16, & 16 26. 2 Thess. 1 8. Act. 5.3 2. Heb. 5.9. 1 Pet. 1.2, 14, 22. 1. Fides est obedientia quatenus ejus actus proprius respondet praecepto ⟨p. 236⟩Evangelii, Creed in dominum Jesum, &c. Ideo enim, ut Calvinus a•t ad Rom. 1.5. nomine obedientiae insignitur, quod Dominus per Evangelium nos vocat, nos vocanti per fidem respondemus. Et sic fides, (ut loquitur Apol. August. Conf. in resp. ad Arg. pag. 125.) est Obedientia erga Evangelium: quae cum Obedientia mandatorum legis minime confundi debet. Nam ut recte Meutzerus (in exeg August Conf. ct. 4 cont. Phot. in. 15.) Quantum ab Evangelio Lex distat, tantum haec obedientia ab illa disterminatur. 42. 2. Est etiam fides obed entia, quantenus per Synecdochen Metonymicam significat totum cultum à fidelibus praestium; radicem una cum fructibus, &c. Nota enim est consuetudo sermonis (ut inquit Apol. Conf. August. de impl. leg. pag. 87.) quod interdum eodem verbo causam & effectus complectimur [Greek or Hebrew]. Ita accipi potest fides,