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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.
Though it hath pleased a late Opponent (Mr. Warner) to make the Defence of this Proposition necessary to me; yet I shall suppose that I may be allowed to be brief, both because of what I have formerly said of it, and because the Question is so easily decided, and Christians are so commonly agreed on it.
THough it hath pleased a late Opponent (Mr. Warner) to make the Defence of this Proposition necessary to me; yet I shall suppose that I may be allowed to be brief, both because of what I have formerly said of it, and because the Question is so easily decided, and Christians are so commonly agreed on it.
For the right understanding of what we here maintain, its necessary that I explain the Terms, and remove confusion by some necessary distinctions, and lay down my sense in some Propositions that make to the opening of this.
To trouble you with the Etymologies of the words in several Languages that signify Righteousness or Justification would be a needless loss of time, it being done to our hands by so many, and we being so far agreed on it, that here lieth no part of our present controversy.
To trouble you with the Etymologies of the words in several Languages that signifie Righteousness or Justification would be a needless loss of time, it being done to our hands by so many, and we being so far agreed on it, that here lyeth no part of our present controversie.