A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.

Reply.

I will not forsake the plain sense of the Text, till other kind of Arguments than these constrain me. 1. Do not you easily see, that your necessary Consequence is against your self and the truth, more than me, and hath indeed no necessity or verity. You speak of Abraham's first Justification, and yet you say, it must needs be by Faith, which is not alone without Works. But Abraham's first Justification was by Faith alone without Works. 2. Do not you see that you ar∣gue to no purpose, that [the Apostle cannot make Faith and Works concomitant in procurement of Ju∣stification, as continued and consummate, and sen∣tential at Judgment, because Abraham was justified

before?] But was his continued and sentential Justifi∣cation before? The Law doth still moraliter agere, and so still Justificare, and so doth God by his Law or Grant. So that it being actus Legis, the Law doth as properly justifie you to day, as it did the first day. And yet it requires more Conditions at your hand to day, than the first moment. I wait therefore for some proof of your Consequence, That Abraham's Justification twenty years after his Conversion, can∣not be by Works as part of the Condition of Con∣tinuance, because his Justification was begun with∣out Works. 3. For your clear proof from the Series and Vers. 17. I see not the least shew of proof, much less clear, but against you.