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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
Letter: To my Reverend Brother Mr. John Warner, Preacher of the Gospel at Christs Church in Han…
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.
Our second Artifice is, [to require Works only as Gospel-Conditions.] Answ. Would you have us say more of them, or less? If less, I have said enough of it in the second Disputation.
Our third Artifice is, [To include works in the Definition of Justifying faith, making it a receiving of Christ as Saviour, Lord and Law-giver to Justification; as also confounding our consummate Salvation or Glorification with our Justification.] Ans. Gross untruths! contrary to large and plain expressions of my mind in several Volumes (if you mean me, as you know I have reason to judge) 1. I ever took works to be a fruit of faith, and no part of it, unless you take the word Faith improperly and laxly; unless by [Works] you mean [Acts] And you take faith for such a work your self, that is, an Act. 2. I expressly distinguished what you say I confound; Consummate Sanctification ⟨p. 318⟩or Glorification, and consummate Justification. But yet as I do in the Definition include Consent to Christs Lordship, though not Obedience (that's only implied to be a necessary consequent,) so I still say that much of your Justification is yet to come; And if your Religion teach you to say, that you will be beholding to Christ for no more Justification, so doth not mine.
Our third Artifice is, [To include works in the Definition of Justifying faith, making it a receiving of Christ as Saviour, Lord and Law-giver to Justification; as also confounding our consummate Salvation or Glorification with our Justification.] Ans. Gross untruths! contrary to large and plaine expressions of my mind in several Volumes (if you mean me, as you know I have reason to judge) 1. I ever took works to be a fruit of faith, and no part of it, unless you take the word Faith improperly and laxely; unless by [Works] you mean [Acts] And you take faith for such a work your self, that is, an Act. 2. I expresly distiguished what you say I confound; Consummate Sanctification ⟨p. 318⟩