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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. I must not here answer that Question, because its proper place is afterward, under some of the following Articles.
Q. 14. But I find some Scriptures, saying, That we are not justified by works, but by Faith in Christ; and yet in Mat. 25. Christ passeth the Sentence upon Mens Works as the Cause; and it's said, We shall be judged according to our works.
A. By works, Paul meaneth hAll works that are conceived to make the reward to be not of Grace, but of Debt: All works which are set in competition or opposition to Justification by Faith in Christ: The ⟨p. 122⟩Question between him and the Jews was, Whether the Divine excellency of Moses's Law was such, as that it was given to justify the doers of it as such? Or whether it was but an Index to point them to Christ the end of the Law, by whom they must be justified? But it is not Believing in Christ, nor begging his Grace, nor thankfully accepting it, that Paul meaneth by Works in his exclusion: It is this that he sets against these works. And as we are here made Justified Persons by mere Grace, giving us Repentance and Faith in Christ (that is, making us Christians:) so this obligeth us to live and die as Christians, if we will be saved. And therefore the final justifying Sentence at Judgment doth pass on us according to such works only as are the performance of our Covenant with Christ, without which we shall not be saved, and therefore not then justified; our Justification then being the justifying of our Title to Salvation, and therefore hath the same conditions.