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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.
Chap. 5. pag. 29.30, 31. He spends a Chapter to open to us the meaning of [fides qua Justificat.] And professeth that it is the Carad controversia; yea it was the remembrance of ⟨p. 308⟩this distinction and the light he received by it that induced him to enter on this Discourse; and that it is the basis of his following exercitation. And what think you is the happy Light that deserveth all this ostentation? Why 1. On the Negative we are satisfied that he means not [What fides qua fides can do:] And then we are secure that he means nothing that can hurt his Adversaries cause. 2. The Light then is all but this [That qua here is not taken Reduplicative, but specificative, when by the particle qua or quatenus, there is some new or singular kind of Denomination added to the subject of the Proposition: as when we say, man as a reasonable creature feeleth: In this latter sense (saith he) I believe the particle qua or quatenus is taken, when we do not say, faith as faith, but faith as Justifying, viz. as a Grace designed to this act or operation of Justifying, looks on Christ as Saviour.]
Chap. 5. pag. 29.30, 31. He spends a Chapter to open to us the meaning of [fides qua Justificat.] And prosesseth that it is the Carad controversia; yea it was the remembrance of ⟨p. 308⟩this distinction and the light he received by it that induced him to enter on this Discourse; and that it is the basis of his following exercitation. And what think you is the happy Light that deserveth all this ostentation? Why 1. On the Negative we are satisfied that he means not [What fides qua fides can do:] And then we are secure that he means nothing that can hurt his Adversaries cause. 2. The Light then is all but this [That qua here is not taken Reduplicative, but specificative, when by the particle qua or quatenus, there is some new or singular kind of Denomination added to the subject of the Proposition: as when we say, man as a reasonable creature feeleth: In this latter sence (saith he) I believe the particle qua or quatenus is taken, when we do not say, faith as faith, but faith as Justifying, viz. as a Grace designed to this act or operation of Justifying, looks on Christ as Saviour.]