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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
§ 9. Your next question is about the nature of Faith, whether if it be placed in the will, and include consent, it be not confounded with Love, whose object is goodness.
I have answered this oft and largely in divers Books, and therefore must here be excused from saying any more than this, viz. 1. You must distinguish between Faith Physically taken, and Faith morally taken. 2. Between its formal act and its material.
I. Physically some one natural act, constituted by one Object is called Faith: But morally taken it comprehendeth divers Physical Acts, both of the Intellect and Will: And as it is Justifying and Saving it is so taken: Yea morally it is sometime in Scripture taken largelier, for our Christian Faith, as God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost the Promise, Grace and Glory are all the constituting Objects of it in their truth and goodness; and sometime more narrowly as altogether distinct from Hope and Love; It is taken in the first sense when it is said to be the condition of Justification and Salvation.
And here what you said of the necessity of conjoining the many similitudes which express Christs