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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.
Page 303.304. Reasoning against me, he saith, [The nearest formal Reason of a Believers Interest, is not Gods making it a condition, which is the remote reason thereof, but a Believers fulfilling the condition, &c.] Answ. 1. Here he changeth the question, from [What is the nearest reason of saiths Interest] to [What is the nearest reason of the Believers Interest.] To the first I say, [Its being made the condition of the Promise.] To the ⟨p. 307⟩second I say, [The Promise or grant it self.] 2. He findeth a learned Confutation for me, viz. That it is not Gods making, but the fulfilling the condition that is the formal Reason. Answ. Performance, that is, Believing maketh faith to be faith, and exist: but the Promise makes that the condition. I spoke de esse, and he de existere: And yet I usually say, that [The nearest Reason of faiths interest in Justification, i•, as it is the condition of the Promises fulfilled] that I might join both. 3. Note that in this his Assertion he granteth me the sum of all that I desire. For if this be true, then it is not the Nature or the Instrumentality of faith that is the nearest reason, as is usually said.
Page 303.304. Reasoning against me, he saith, [The nearest formal Reason of a Believers Interest, is not Gods making it a condition, which is the remote reason thereof, but a Believers fulfilling the condition, &c.] Answ. 1. Here he changeth the question, from [What is the nearest reason of saiths Interest] to [What is the nearest reason of the Believers Interest.] To the first I say, [Its being made the condition of the Promise.] To the ⟨p. 307⟩second I say, [The Promise or grant it self.] 2. He findeth a learned Confutation for me, viz. That it is not Gods making, but the fulfilling the condition that is the formal Reason. Answ. Performance, that is, Believing maketh faith to be faith, and exist: but the Promise makes that the condition. I spoke de esse, and he de existere: And yet I usually say, that [The nearest Reason of faiths interest in Justification, i•, as it is the condition of the Promises fulfilled] that I might joyn both. 3. Note that in this his Assertion he granteth me the sum of all that I desire. For if this be true, then it is not the Nature or the Instrumentality of faith that is the nearest reason, as is usually said.