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An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…
An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errors by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errours by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...
London: printed by J.C. for Henry Brome, 1670
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And thus much may suffice for refutation of the former mistake of those who hold the Dogmatical Faith, that is, the belief of the truth either of the word of God in general, or of the Gospel in special, that Jesus Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer of mankind, to be that Faith whereby we are said here to be justified.
And thus much may suffice for refutation of the former mistake of those who hold the Dogmatical Faith, that is, the beleif of the truth either of the word of God in general, or of the Gospel in special, that Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of mankind, to be that Faith whereby we ar said here to be justified.
There remain some few Testimonies of Scripture to be answered, that are wont to be produced for the proof of that tenet either by the Papists, or our own writers.
There remain some few Testimonies of Scripture to be answered, that ar wont to be produced for the proof of that tenent either by the Papists, or our own writers.
Now for the proof of this, that justifying faith is no other then a firm assent to the truth of Gods word in general, Bellarmine produceth only one place of Scripture, to wit, the Apostles words, Hebrews. 11. 1. Faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, and the argument, or, evidence of things not appearing. This he calls his first argument, tho it have no second, as elsewhere he doth the like. And in the prosecution of his argument from this place he spends a whole Chapter, de justificat. lib. 1. cap. 6. wherein he takes for granted that the Apostle in these words gives an exact definition of justifying faith: and the instances that after he gives concerning the creation of the world by Gods word, and the destruction of it by a flood, &c. show that this faith is a belief of the word of God in general, as well of Historical relations, as of doctrinal instructions, and of comminations as of promises.