Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

( 2+6 ) and convincingly againft you. And fo lithe fecond Pfalnÿwhol- ly,which makesfubjection to Chríft as King, the great part ofthe Gofpel condition. [.I{ ft thefan] conteineth more then Recambesscy,in my judgement : and yet no more then that true faith which is theconditionofjuftification, But no word in your paper brings me to fuch a flhnd as your next, where you fay, And that io very harfh Mill which youex- prefs, to extEt the Riyhteoufnefs of the Covenant of grace up- on the condition, fu'filledby your felf, through Gods workings. ,] ,nfw. Truly it is quite beyond my (hallow capacity to reach what you here mean to be ío harfh.: what fhouid I imagine ? That there are conditions upon which the Tenor of the Gofpel gives Chrifc Righteoufnefs, you acknowldge : And that he,. that perfortneth them not, the Gofpel giveth him noneof it : I know you confefs thefe ; And that we multi needs perform them our felves,through Gods workings ( i...e. both;enablernent and . excitation, and co-operation ) I know youdoubt of none of thefe; for you have wrote againfl the cAistinomian, : and Mr. G.= ;taper bath evinced the fottifh ignorance or impudency of Saltmarfh, in denying Faith, Repentance and Obedience to be the conditionson which, performedby us, we muff enjoy the things promifed, Pardon, &c. or elfe not. Yea in this paper you yield to this conditionality . What then is the mat- ter ? Is it harft whenyet younever once Phew the fault of the Speech ? It níuft be either the falfhood, or the unfitnefs.; but you have yet accufed it of neither : and yet fay it is,harfh. But the reafon you intimate, becaufe Rellarmine bath fome fuch phrafe : which I never remembred or obferved in him : and little do I care whether behaveor no : If the Papifts be nearer to us then I take them to be, it is caufe of joy and not forrow : But fore I am that Proteflant Writers generally ufe the word Condition ; and wendeline faith, The Papifis abufe us in feigning us to fay the Gof pet is abfolute ; and faith,the Gofpel tae eachfence conditional. In one fence Felith is the Condition in another, FaithandObedience, &c. But here you come again to the Labyrinth and tranfcendent Myíterie of paffive Faith : nay you enlarge the Myfterie yet more : I. You fay .[ Faith doh pati. z. /Indict Love dash

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