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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.
Answ. 1. I grant the conclusion. Christ as a servant is to be believed in. 2. But if [only] was again forgotten, I further answer. 1. I deny the consequence of the Major, because Christ is to be believed on for Justification in other respects, even in all essential to his Office, and not only as satisfying. I instanced before in Obeying, Rising, Judging, from express Scripture. 2. If the conclusion were granted, its against you and not for you. For 1. Active obedience is as proper to a servant as suffering. 2. Christ Taught the Church as a servant to his Father, and is expressly called A Minister of the Circumcision. So that these you yield the objects of this faith.
Answ. 1. I grant the conclusion. Christ as a servant is to be believed in. 2. But if [only] was again forgotten, I further answer. 1. I deny the consequence of the Major, because Christ is to be believed on for Justification in other respects, even in all essential to his Office, and not only as satisfying. I instanced before in Obeying, Rising, Judging, from express Scripture. 2. If the conclusion were granted, its against you and not for you. For 1. Active obedience is as proper to a servant as suffering. 2. Christ Taught the Church as a servant to his Father, and is expresly called A Minister of the Circumcision. So that these you yield the objects of this faith.
Mr. W. Argument 12. If none can call Christ [Lord] before he be justified by faith, then faith as justifying is not an Accepting him as Lord. The Minor is true, because none can call him Lord, but by the Spirit: and the Spirit is received by the hearing of faith, after we believe.
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