Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

not of Grace ) and therefore could not be ¡unified by them. Your third Argument is, [ becaufe imputing, coverings ' all is wholly attributed to God. ] AnJWer, I doubt not but that God is the only Principal efficient Caufe, and his Promife or Cove- nant the Inftrumental : therefore I cannot think as others, that man is the efficient Inftrumental by believing, or that Faith is fuch : But what! Is all therefore attributed to God ? Even the performance of the Conditions on mans part? Or are there no fuch conditions which man muff perform himfelf or perifh ? God only covereth fin, imputeth Ríghteoufnefs, &c. but to none who have not performed the Conditions. Is Belie- ving attributed to God, or is it an aet of man ? Or is it exclu- ded?When will you prove the Confequenceof this Argument ? Your fifth Argument is, [ becaufe the ex4fertionu univerfal without work.! in general) Anfwer, t. Doth not the Apofile contradi& you by expounding himfelf in the very next verfe before thofe you cite ? Rorr.4. 4. That by works he meansnot fimplygoodAllions, as lanes doth, but fuch as make the re- ward tobe of debt and not of Grace ? Indeed fuchworks are univerfally excluded. z. Thereforehe excludes the verypretence ofworks, andfaith, to him that worketh not, &c. ver. 5. But the prefence"of good a&ions you fay is notexcluded. Your laft Argument feems to me the fame with the fourth, and it forceth me to admire that you fhould think the confe- quence good.Blefednefs uwhenfin isforgiven ; thereforeno too or goodall performed by man is the conditionof forgivenefs, either as begun or continued, or tarofummate ] If this be not your con- fequence, you fay nothing againfi me ; if it be, I affure you it is not in myPower tobelieve it,nor to difcern the leaft thaddow of probability of truth in it, nor to free it from the charge of being the groffeft Antinomianifm ( fi pace tui ità dicane.) And here I mull needs tell you allo myutter difability to reconcile you with your feif ; for you before fay,they are media ordinata, and here you fay, They are excluded under any notion As if tobe amediumwere nonotion ; or the medium didnothing in or to the very juftifying of the perfon. To my next Anfwer. If works be excludedunder any notion,' then Jameshis Words cannot be true, that We arejufifled by works. You

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