Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

(394) 41void Tompfon Doftrince of Intercifon,upon every notable defe&of a Chriítians faith when unbelief gives him a foyl, which is toocommon ? as you anfwer,(o will I. If you fay his faith is not overcome habitually, when unbelief is prevalent in the prefent Ai , I will fay fo of his obedience. 2. You knowmoic Divines fay as couch as I, that obedience is a condi- tion of the cominuance of jollification, (only they fay that faith only is the Inftrument of ;ufti`ying, ) and how will they anfwer you ? 3. You know that all fay, that obedience is a condition of Salvation, and Co of our prefent Title toSal- vation. NoNhowwill they avoid Tompfees Doctrine of Inter- cifion of that Title to Salvation , upon the committing of fuch fins ? 4, Ic is not perfe&.obediencewhich I fay is the condition,but fincere A rid by fincere I mean fo much as may exprefs that we unfeignedly take Chriít Rill for our Lord and Saviour : And fo it is not every fin chat I fay will forfeit or interrupt our Juftiucation and cluje it to difcontinue,(that is, . lofe our Title or change: our Relation. in Law : ) nn nor every grofs fin : but only that fin which is inconfflent with thecontinued Accepting Chritt for our Sove.aign : that fn which breaks the main Covenant, (of which fee Dr. Pr(l'onat large,) as Adultery or Defertion loth in marriage Aydeny- ittg God tobe our God, or Chrii'i to be our Chrifl, by our works, while we confers him in word : An acffual explicite or implicite Renunciation of Orin, and taking the fieflh for our mailer and the pleating of it for our happinefs; or as the eMetab^nncnsnr followinga falle Chriil. Now, I hope that no ;unified perfon doth eve r commit this fin ; much lefs any elect and juf:ified man, of whom Tompfon fpeaks.You may fee through his ninth chap. part z, that Tompfon erred through euifunderftanding wherein the fincerityof Faith as ¡unifying slothconf ft ¡I with many mere do not fo.) He thought that. Juftificationdid follow everyact of undiffembled Faith but only rooted Faith would certainly perfevere; and there- fore the unroofed (Though true Believers) might lore their j unification, if theywere Reprobates (Prasfciti as he calls them,) orhave it interrupted, if they were elect. But if he riad known(.what I have afferted in the aforefaid cap.'r.part 3. of

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