Of Justification, Part 3
COnſect. 1. To be juſtified by Faith, is to be juſtified by Faith in Chriſt as Chriſt, and not by any one part of that Faith, excluding any of its Eſſential parts.
2. To be juſtified by Faith in Chriſt as Chriſt, and ſo as Riſing, Teaching, Pardoning, Ruling, Judging, as well as ſatisfying, i.e. as the Saviour that hath undertaken all this, is not in Pauls ſenſe to be juſtified by works: therefore it is the true Juſtification by Faith.
3. It is therefore unſound to make any one Act or part of Faith the fides qua Juſtificans, and the other Eſſential parts to be the fides qua juſtificat, when no more can be ſaid of any but that it is fides ex qua juſtificamur, and that may be ſaid of all.
4. Though Faith be an Acceptance of Chriſt and Life as offered in the Goſpel, ſo that its very Nature or Eſſence is morally Receptive, which may tolerably be called its Metaphorical Paſſive Inſtrumentality; yet are we not juſtified by it qua talis, that is, qua fides, and ſo not quatenus Inſtrumentum tale Metaphoricum, vel Acceptatio, vel Receptio moralis, but qua conditio Teſtamenti vel faederis praſtita.
5. Therefore it is not only the Acceptance of Righteouſneſs by which we are juſtified, much leſs the Affiance in Chriſt as dying only; but the Belief in Chriſt as the Purchaſer of Salvation, and as the Sanctifier, Guide and Teacher of our ſouls in order thereunto, hath as true an Intereſt in our Juſtification as the believing in him for Pardon. And ſo far as any other holy act doth modifie and ſubſerve faith, and is part of the Condition of Juſtification with it, ſo far by it alſo we are juſtified.
FINIS
End of the text · Richard Baxter, Of Justification (1658)