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.
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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.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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London :: Printed for Nevil Simons and Jonath. Robinson ...,
1676.
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Aphor.
THough the Sufferings of Christ have * 1.1 the chief place therein, yet his Obedi∣ence, as such, may also be Meritorious and Satis∣factory.
Adnimadvers.
You mean his Active Obedience: For there is also Passive Obedience, as well as Active.
Reply.
I do mean all Obedience, as Obedience: For I sup∣pose you mean Christ's Sufferings as Penal (when you call them the Satisfaction, and exclude the Active Righteousness) and not directly as Obedience: Though, no doubt, they must not be separated from the consideration of their being Voluntary and
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Obediential. But to tell you my thoughts, I think the phrase of [Passive Obedience] is very dark, if you understand it in the same near sense as you do [Active Obedience:] For all Obedience is so called formally, in reference to some Law or Command of a Superior to which we obey. Now Poena, or Suffering, is not the direct and proper matter of any Precept, as a Precept: The Law doth threaten Punishment, and not command it. Yet as Suffer∣ing is the remote matter, so it may be called, Passive Obedience; (that is, God commandeth us to submit to Sufferings.) Submission and Patience is the direct matter of Obedience; and Suffering the Remote: And therefore I will not quarrel with the phrase of [Passive Obedience.]