Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

This is it that I have afferred : and with a Content to this I am fatisfied. As for the point of fpecification of our Atis, I never look to fee the Schools agreed about it, how confidently foever Mr K. talks, as if they all Confpired with him, Call the differ- ence Gradual or Specifical,asyou pleafe,fo we agree in the fenfe, I am content. I chofe tocall it a Moral Specifical difference,and in that fenfe domaintain; That the faith ofthe heft of the un- fanaified is not fpecifically the famewith that of the fanetified, and foof Love and other Graces. As to that Saving faith, all other is but Analogically called faith, as I have thewed in the before-cited againfl Mr Blakf. But yet lam not of Mr K's opi- nion about the Natural Specification ofAds, for all his Confi- dence. I yet think that As are Naturally (and not only Moral ly) fpecified from their Objeas, conficlered Phyfically : and are .114 ordy fpecified by thofe Objeects as Related to the Laws that command,forbid, threaten, promife ; and fo by the Laws them. felves : (whichDr Twirs will needs fay, are no gecies of Ads, thoughvulgarly fo called. Vind.Grat.l.2.par.2.Dtgref.g.p.4 o.) I nowdefire no more of theReader then to Content; r. To the expreta words of Scripture, whicla I cited in that Chap.' i. . §. 15, which I defire him to review : 2. And to that which Mr K and I are agreed in. I hope you will take this for a reafonable motion, it being unlike that the Cretian penof fo bold a rnanfo felf,conceited and fupercilioufly Icornful, fteould grant memuch more then he needs muff. Let us examine his Conceflions, for Matter and Words. a. For fenfe, he confefreth pag. 157, thus [Jamof MrBarters minde, that nofober Divine Will tell tss, that ifWe love God never fo littleWithout dirembling, yet he Will Accept it, though We love our lufis before bint.,] So oft he yeeldeth that all fincere Love toGod,doth prefer him before all other.Where then is our difference? Why, he thinks that no others, Believe or Love God at all, but thofe that Love him above all. I did affirm,That as to that fame Moral Species ofFaith and Love,they do not at all Believe and Love God; but as to another Species they do, and truly do it. How oft doth Scripture fay of the un- fandified, that they Believed haChrift, at lean, for a time ? But I Chill leave it till I !peek to Mr K himfelf, to prove that men unrenewed may have Faith and Love to Chrift, though not Ca- ving. And whereas our Datior according to the complexion of

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