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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.
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.
2. Gospel Precepts are many, if not all, the same with the Moral Law; if Justified then by obedience to them, are we not justified by the works of the Law? You conceive the Justification, Jam. 2. to be by works in a proper sense, and that before God; and Rahabs act was a work of Hospitality, ver. 25. commanded in the Law; and Abraham's work was a sacrificing, or offering a work of the Ceremonial Law, ver. 21.
2. Gospel Precepts are many, if not all, the same with the Moral Law; if Justified then by obedience to them, are we not justified by the works of the Law? You conceive the Justification, Jam. 2. to be by works in a proper sence, and that before God; and Rahabs act was a work of Hospitality, ver. 25. commanded in the Law; and Abrahams work was a sacrificing, or offering a work of the Ceremonial Law, ver. 21.