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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.
His Endeavours to overthrow that Doctrine of mine which he nameth of [second Justification] begin pag. 223. where he argueth, 1. from Rom. 5. 1▪ 2, 3. That the beginning and end is ascribed to faith. Answer. Its all granted: faith is it that we are justified by to the last. We are agreed of this inclusively: But the Question is, whats the Exclusion: Not believing in Christ as Lord and Master, nor loving him; but the works that make or are supposed to make that Reward to be of debt, and not of Grace.
His second proof is from Phil. 3.7, 8. To which I answer. We are of Pauls mind, but not of yours. 1. He counted all ⟨p. 287⟩as loss and dung that stood in opposition to, or competition with Christ: and so would I do by faith and love it self, should they be so arrogant. 2. Paul expressly nameth the works that he excludeth, that is, the Righteousness which is of the Law, or in Legal works. And do we make any doubt of this? No, nor of those works that materially are Evangelical: for if they are formally Evangelical they cannot be set up against Christ, their very nature being to subserve him.
His second proof is from Phil. 3.7, 8. To which I answer. We are of Pauls mind, but not of yours. 1. He counted all ⟨p. 287⟩as loss and dung that stood in opposition to, or competition with Christ: and so would I do by faith and love it self, should they be so arrogant. 2. Paul expresly nameth the works that he excludeth, that is, the Righteousness which is of the Law, or in Legal works. And do we make any doubt of this? No, nor of those works that materially are Evangelical: for if they are formally Evangelical they cannot be set up against Christ, their very nature being to subserve him.