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.

§. VIII. But pag. 15. You are again incredu∣lous, that [All the Difference betwixt you and me, or others of the same Judgment in the Point of Justi∣fication, is meerly Verbal; and that in the Main we are agreed]. And again you complain of your weak Legs.

Answ. 1. I do agree with very many against their wills in Judgment (because the Judgment may be constrained), but with none in Affection, as on their part. Did I ever say, that I differed not from you? I tell you, I know not what your Judg∣ment is, nor know I who is of your Mind? But I have not barely said, but oft proved, that (though not the Antinomians) the Protestants are mostly here agreed in the Main. If you could not have time to read my larger Proof, that short Epi∣stle to Mr. Allen's Book of the Covenant, in which I proved it, might have stopt your Mouth from calling for more Proof, till you had better con∣futed what was given.

But you say, [Are perfect Contradictions no more than a difference in Words? Faith alone, and not Faith alone? Faith with and without Works? Ex∣cuse our Dulness here].

Answ. 1. Truly, Sir, it is a tedious thing, when a Man hath over and over Answered such

Objections; yea, when the full Answers have been twenty years in Print, to be put still to say over all again, to every Man that will come in and say, that his Legs are too weak to go see what was an∣swered before: How many score times then, or hundreds, may I be called to repeat.

2. If I must pardon your Dulness, you must pardon my Christianity (or chuse) who believe that there is no such [perfect Contradictions] be∣tween Christ's, [By thy Words thou shalt be Justi∣fied] and Paul's, [Justified by Faith, without the Works of the Law] or [not of Works]; and James's [We are justified by Works, and not by Faith only]. Must we needs proclaim War here, or cry out, Heresie, or Popery? Are not all these Recon∣cileable? Yea, and Pauls too, Rom. 2. The Doers of the Law shall be justified.

3. But did I ever deny that it is [by Faith alone and without Works]? Where, and when? But may it not be, by Faith alone in one sense, and not by Faith alone in another sense?

4. But even where you are speaking of it, you cannot be drawn to distinguish of Verbal and Real Differences. Is it here the Words, or Sense, which you accuse? The Words you dare not deny to be Gods own in Scripture, spoken by Christ, Paul, and James. My Sense I have opened to you at large, and you take no Notice of it; but as i•• you abhor∣red Explication and Distinction, speak still against the Scripture Words.