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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 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.
Once for all, remember this Argument. Those works that are commanded by God in the Gospel, are not excluded by God in the Gospel in that nature and to the use for which they are commanded. But faith in Christ Jesus the Lord and Saviour, (an entire faith) and Repentance towards God and love to him are commanded by God in the Gospel in order to the pardon of sin; and the continuance of these with sincere Obedience, are commanded as means of our continued pardon, and as a means of our final Justification at Judgement. Therefore none of these are excluded by the Gospel from any of these uses or ends.