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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.
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 ⟨p. 93⟩Office to us, when but one of them in a Text is named, the same must be said of Faith in Christ. A Moral act which hath many Physical acts, must be named by some one, the rest being connoted or implied; for it would be uncomely to name them all in every mention of it.
And here what you said of the necessity of conjoyning the many similitudes which express Christs ⟨p. 93⟩Office to us, when but one of them in a Text is named, the same must be said of Faith in Christ. A Moral act which hath many Physical acts, must be named by some one, the rest being connoted or implied; for it would be uncomely to name them all in every mention of it.
Note also, that the name is varied according to what is specially noted in the Object, sometime Truth, sometime Goodness: So Christ saith, [The Father hath loved you, because ye have loved me. And Paul, Grace be to all them that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity. If any man love not the Lord Jesus, let him be Anathema Maranatha. And Christ,