Answ. Any thing must serve. 1. Both Major and Minor are such as are not to be swallowed in the lump. If by [Call] you mean the call of the voice, then the consequence of the Major is vain and groundless. For a man may believe in Christ with the heart as Lord and Saviour, before he call him so with the mouth. But if by [Call] you mean [Believe] then the Minor is false & so confessed by all Protestants and Christians that ⟨p. 300⟩ever I heard from of this point, till now: For they all confess that faith in Christ as Lord and Teacher, and Head, &c. is the fides quae justificat, or is of necessity to be present with the believing in his blood, that a man may be justified. Never did I hear till now that we first believe in Christ as dying only, and so are justified before we believe in him as Lord, (and it seems before we are his Subjects or Disciples, and that is, before we are Christians.) 2. To your proof of the Minor I answer, 1. It is no proof because the Text saith only that, [No man can call him Lord but by the Spirit] but our question is of Believing, and not of Calling which is Confessing. 2. Many Expositors take it but for a common gift of the Spirit that's there spoken of: and do you think Justification must needs precede such common gifts? 3. But if it had been [Believe in stead of Call] its nothing for you: For I easily grant that no man can believe in Christ as Lord but by the Spirit: but I deny that this gift of the Spirit is never received, till after that we believe and are justified. And because it seems you judge that Believing in Christ to Justification is without the Spirit, I pray answer first what we have said against the Arminians, and Augustine against the Pelagians, for the contrary. Who would have thought that you had held such a point? 4. How could you wink so hard as not to see that your Argument is as much against your self as me, if you do but turn it thus? [If none can call Christ Jesus, or the Saviour, or believe in him to Justification, before he be justified by faith, then faith as justifying is not the accepting him as a Saviour: The Minor is proved, because none can call him Jesus, or believe to Justification but by the Spirit] This is as wise and strong an Argument as the other, and all one. See 1 Job. 4.15. & 5.5. Believing in Christ as Saviour is as much of the Spirit, is believing in him as Lord. 5.
Answ. Any thing must serve. 1. Both Major and Minor are such as are not to be swallowed in the lump. If by [Call] you mean the call of the voyce, then the consequence of the Major is vain and groundless. For a man may believe in Christ with the heart as Lord and Saviour, before he call him so with the mouth. But if by [Call] you mean [Believe] then the Minor is false & so confessed by all Protestants and Christians that ⟨p. 300⟩ever I heard from of this point, till now: For they all confess that faith in Christ as Lord and Teacher, and Head, &c. is the fides quae justificat, or is of necessity to be present with the believing in his blood, that a man may be justified. Never did I hear till now that we first believe in Christ as dying only, and so are justified before we believe in him as Lord, (and it seems before we are his Subjects or Disciples, and that is, before we are Christians.) 2. To your proof of the Minor I answer, 1. It is no proof because the Text saith only that, [No man can call him Lord but by the Spirit] but our question is of Believing, and not of Calling which is Confessing. 2. Many Expositors take it but for a common gift of the Spirit thats there spoken of: and do you think Justification must needs precede such common gifts? 3. But if it had been [Believe in stead of Call] its nothing for you: For I easily grant that no man can believe in Christ as Lord but by the Spirit: but I deny that this gift of the Spirit is never received, till after that we believe and are justified. And because it seems you judge that Believing in Christ to Justification is without the Spirit, I pray answer first what we have said against the Arminians, and Augustine against the Pelagians, for the contrary. Who would have thought that you had held such a point? 4. How could you wink so hard as not to see that your Argument is as much against your self as me, if you do but turn it thus? [If none can call Christ Jesus, or the Saviour, or believe in him to Justification, before he be justified by faith, then faith as justifying is not the accepting him as a Saviour: The Minor is proved, because none can call him Jesus, or believe to Justification but by the Spirit] This is as wise and strong an Argument as the other, and all one. See 1 Iob. 4.15. & 5.5. Believing in Christ as Saviour is as much of the Spirit, is believing in him as Lord. 5.
