Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

here anfveered ; fuppoftng what I bad f eidof the farm poirttt i my firfi Di!potation , which 1 faW no Reafon too often to Re- peat. I amnone ofthofe that blame you for toomuch : f the Meta- phyticks, but rather 7nAtnail that youfearednot left your Meta- ph)fìcalReader Will wrong you 6ymif-applying your cited Scheg- kius contrary toyour better opinion ofyour fel f and tae both your Schegkiusavidyour Scaligerfor `Prophet' that could 'Peak su if they hadreadyour Rook; andbeen acquaintedWithyour ar- guing'. But itfeem'you are not thefirft of that way. Byyour Arguments inyour Preface, 1 perceiveyou think it a matter of verygreat moment toyour caufè, to prove that there are divers oat' ofFaitb, whereas I am fo far from denying it , that 1 an ready to demonffrate , tbat even thefaith by which We arefufiified,io lii¿,er to have twenty aíls then one only , but many certainly it loath. Your firß Argument is, from thedfferent ob- jeas,becaufe the Objects jj.ecifie the Act'. Afufficient Argument which no man can confute. But i This is noproof that one eat only is it that we areju/fifiedby. 2, Whereyou add that 7nfti- fying Faith loath not re9retl to Chrifi as Lordformaliter,you beg the Queftion,and ajfert no lightmiflake. Rut whereyou add [ in its ad of J uftifying i you do but obtrude upon its your funda- mental Error ( which leadethyou to theref' ) by naked affirma- tion:. Faith loathproperly no juftifying act : Juftificare eft ef- ficere, Faith lothnot e ffta our funi fcation : are juflificd by faith indeed but not as by an efficient carafe unlefs you Will take ?unification for Santification ; For real gya!atative Mutati- on, it doth tffea ; but theJus or Title to any mercy in the world it cannot Effec&, but Accept whin 'bred. if you cannotfee fo plaina Truth in its Evidence, yet ()Verve by the word' ofthe Re- verend Brother that is my Opponent in the (eco- ei Dijfiutation,and byyour Prefacer: Dr.Kendals courfe,that it' a pave inflrtsmer- tality that the Defenders ofyour canfeat Tai are driven to; and therefore talk not of its aá of J uftifying unleft you will mean Gods a& of Juftifyingwhich faith is the Condition of. Andwhereas you make unbelief to be formally a fighting and neglec&ing Chrift as a Saviour and of%lively ( you mull mean only s f f'etlive & on formaliter) a denying fubjection tohim S 2 as

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