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sense_n	faith_n	justification_n	justify_v	7,231	5	9.1878	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94087	A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster. In a monitory letter to the said Mr. Baxter. By a true friend and servant of the Commonwealth of England, &c.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6068; Thomason E985_21; ESTC R203679	15,324	23

whether you have in this passage of your Book faithfully discharged your Duty towards your neighbour and do●e the same to him which you would have had another to have done to you I take not upon me to apologize for any extravagant or heterodox opinions by whomsoever maintained in doct●inalls I do agree for substance with most of our godly Protestant Writers Though it must be granted that there are severall degrees of Light and the great mysteries of the Gospel are more clearly revealed to one then to ●nother yet so that the most quick sighted Christian knows but in part and therefore is apt to mistake in many things by reason of his ignorance and darknesse I wish with all my heart that all those Patriots who stand up and appear for common right and Justice and the publick Interest and weal of these Nations were both Orth●dox and sound in their judgements and also holy in their lives and conversations but we must look more at things then at persons Justice and honesty even in our E●emies and those that differ from us though but in one action should be acceptable to us I have often discoursed with this honourable Gentleman whom you endeavour to blast and render odious by your unbridled tongue and have heard him interpret the Scriptures what his judgment and apprehensions have been formerly I know not but of late in my hearing h● hath expressed himself clearly and faithfully in the great point of Just●fication by the righteousnesse and obedience of Christ as Mediator in opposition to the principles of the Quakers who together with the Papists plead for justification by an inherent righteousness or g●acious qualifications under the notion of Christ or the Spirit in them whereby the blood-shed and obedience of our High Priest the Lord Jesus is rendred invalid and of no effect Now as Luther saith well If a man be ●ound in this one Article of free Justification by the righteousnesse of Christ it will minister light and direction to him in points of an inferiour and lesser consequence We cannot but know that many pretious godly Ministers and Christians since the beginning of the late Wars have been shaken and unsettled in their Judgements as to some of the main Articles of the Christian faith but after some trialls temptations and a●flictions and after seeking the face of God and consulting his word and his people they have been by the blessing of God rooted and stablished in the truth Certainly a man may be Orthodox and sound in Judgment as to the principles of Religion and yet wanting sincere love to Christ ●nd his people may fall shor● of heaven and on the contrary another Christian m●y erre and mistake in many points and yet having ●incere love to the Truths of Christ according to that meas●re of light which God hath vouchsafed unto him he may be saved Who art thou that judgest another mans servant to his own master he st●●deth ●r fall●th And le● him who thinketh that he standeth take heed that he fall not I cannot but wonder at your exceeding great confidence Sect. VII and boldnesse in aspe●sing others with Popery and Jesuitisme who I hope are not ●ainted therewith But Mr. Baxter are not you guilty of the same evils whereof you accuse them and should not you according to our Saviours direction First pluck the beam out of your own eye that you may the better pluck out the mote which is in your brothers eye Physician heal thy self first reform thine own Judgement and reli●quish thine own errours and then reprove others Not to insi●t upon your Sophisticating and darkning the main points and principles of Divinity by your exotick Aristotelian learning superficiall Syllogismes and puzzling Distinctions Sure I am you have in your Writings boldly avouched for Truths such Principles as bordering too near upon the Jesuites and Socinians will not be owned by sober pious Protestants wherein you do not correspond with Luther Calvin Beza Martyr and other Re●orm●sts but rather with Bellarmine Socinus Arminius as hath been sufficiently demonstrated by others I might write largely of your corrupt and unsound tenets touching Justification Conversion the Nature of Speciall Grace Assurance Perseverance the extent and e●fects of the death of Christ which you have not yet rec●●ted that I know of But I will onely at present recite some passages out of your books and leave it to the Impartiall Reader whether these bold Assertions of yours be suitable to the Protestant Doctrine and the simplicity of the Gospel of Christ You say e That Christ hath not taken away the whole curse of the Law from Believers by bearing it himself and that the afflictions of Believers are in execution of the threatning and Curse of the Law That Christ hath not repealed the Old Covenant nor freed Believers wholly from it but superadded the new Law or Covenant to it as the onely possible way of life That an absolute discharge from the execution of the threatning of the Law is granted to none in this life and that when we believe and perform the condition yet still the discharge remains conditionall till we have finished our performance That the Law of God is not only relaxed as to the person suffering but partly as to the penalty suffered That Christ payed not the idem or same thing in the obligation and that even in his sufferings the threatning was partly dispensed with or relaxed That Jer. 31. 31. Heb. 8. 8 9 10. do not contain the full tenor of the Covenant of Grace The holy Ghost saith this is the Covenant but you tell us that it is but a part of the Covenant You call them ordinary Vulgar unstudied Divines who hold the Imputation of Christs active obedience to be the form of our Justi●ication And thus Calvin Beza Chamier Perkins Whitaker Davenant Twisse Ames Cotton Bayn c. are but ordinary Vulgar Divines when they come in competition with incomparable Mr. Baxter You tell us boldly That good works in a proper sense do justifie us before God That faith and faithfull actions are our Evangelicall righteousnesse and that faith as a complicate act accepting Christ as Lord and King is the condition of our Justification And so according to this Popish Doctrine we are partly justified by Grace and partly by Works But the Apostle Paul and the Protestants are not of your mind That the suspending the rigorous execution of the Law which in a sense is common to the elect and reprobate is the immediate noble issue and fruit of Christs death That Christ died to satisfie Divine Justice for the sins of all men elect and reprobate That we are but conditionally and not absolutely delivered from eternall death by the death of Christ nor have we right to life without the intervention of a condition to be performed on our part to qualifie us morally for it That our love is the cause o● condition of our adoption for which you quote Matth. 5.