A26864:763
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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§. 88.
R. B. When sincere obedience and perfect obedience are all one, and when the Precept and the Condition of the Covenant are proved to be of equal extent, then there will be ground for the charging of this Consequence. In the first Covenant of Nature the Precept and the Condition were of equal extent; for perfect obedience was the Condition; but it is not so in the Covenant of Grace.
R. B. WHen sincere obedience and perfect obedience are all one, and when the Precept and the Condition of the Covenant are proved to be of equal extent, then there will be ground for the charging of this Consequence. In the first Covenant of Nature the Precept and the Condition were of equal extent; for perfect obedience was the Condition; but it is not so in the Covenant of Grace.
§. 89.
Mr. Bl. 7. Then it follows that sincerity is never called for as a Duty, or required as a Grace; but only dispensed with as a failing, indulged as a want. It is not so much a Christians honour or Character, as his blemish or failing; rather his defect then praise. But we find the contrary in Noah, Job, Asa, Hezekiah, Zechariah and Elizabeth, Nathaniel an Israelite indeed that entered Covenant and kept Covenant.