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.

Aphorism.

ANd so Rom. 5. 19. By the Obedience * 1.1 of one, many are made righteous.

Animadvers.

That place will evince nothing for you, because it may, and probably should be interpreted of Obedience by Suffering. He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, &c. Phil. 2. 8.

Reply.

1. But it seems to speak of Obedience, as Obedi∣ence: And then it is not much matter, whether the matter of it be doing, or suffering. For in Christ's suffering, if it were not only his suffering, as suffering or Penalty, but also as Obedience, which was Sa∣tisfactory: Then why may not his Active Obedience, as Obedience, also be Satisfactory? For à quatenus ad omne valet consequentia. However, there is the same formal Nature of Obedience in Active Obedi∣ence, as is in Passive. Nay, even Passive Obedience

is more properly and nearly Active; and but im∣properly and remotely Passive. For the Act of Wil∣ling Submission, is that which is commanded, and is the materia proxima & propria of Obedience: The Penalty (as I said even now) is not command∣ed directly and properly, but threatned: And the pain, as pain, is but remotely the matter of Obe∣dience, as the Object of our Patience.

2. And Rom. 5. 19. seemeth to include Active Obedience, as well as Passive: For it seems to inti∣mate such Obedience as is opposed to Adam's Dis∣obedience. However, it is such as is opposed to Disobedience in general, and therefore it is (as I said) Obedience qua talis, and not as Suffering.

Notes

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