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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.
In the Saints Everlasting Rest, pag. 11. Doubtless the Gospel takes faith for our obedience to All Gospel Precepts. Believing doth not produce subjection to Christ as King, as a finite, but contains it as an Essential part, &c. Aphor. p. 25.5. Faith doth as Really and Immediately Receive Christ as King (as Saviour, or Priest) and so Justify, Thes. 65. Scripture doth not take the word [Faith] for any one single Act; nor yet for various Acts of one only faculty; but for a complete entire motion of the whole soul to Christ its Object, Thes. 57. It is the Act of faith which justifies men at Age, and not the Habit.
In the Saints Everlasting Rest, pag. 11. Doubtless the Gospel takes faith for our obedience to All Gospel Precepts. Believing doth not produce subjection to Christ as King, as a finite, but contains it as an Essential part, &c. Aphor. p. 25.5. Faith doth as Really and Immediately Receive Christ as King (as Saviour, or Priest) and so Justifie, Thes. 65. Scripture doth not take the word [Faith] for any one single Act; nor yet for various Acts of one only faculty; but for a compleat entire motion of the whole soul to Christ its Object, Thes. 57. It is the Act of faith which justifies men at Age, and not the Habit.
Against this I object; 1. Faith worketh by Love, Gal. 5.16. If one be an essential part of the other, and faith a complete entire motion of the soul, then when it is said, Faith worketh by Love, it might be said, it worketh by Faith.
Against this I object; 1. Faith worketh by Love, Gal. 5.16. If one be an essential part of the other, and faith a compleat entire motion of the soul, then when it is said, Faith worketh by Love, it might be said, it worketh by Faith.