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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › A PREMONITION.
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4. I do not think that the Reward which Christ was to have for his fulfilling the Law was immutability or confirmation: For I think he had that in his very nature, by the Unity of the Divine and Humane in one Person. But I think that the perfect Glory of his Humanity was part of his Reward, Phil. 2. 7, 8, 9. Heb. 12. 23, &c. And therefore that Glory hath much more in it, than confirmation in Grace: But it's plain in the Gospel, that it was not only one Act of Obedience, which was Christs condition, in order to his receiving the Fruits or full Reward of his Merits: But it was perfect Holiness of Nature and Life to the end of his course on Earth. Else you must say that Christ's first Act of Obedience was his performance of his Covenant-Condition, and all the rest for some other purpose only; which is absurd.
5. One act of our Obedience now is not the fulfilling of all the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, nor entitleth us alone to Glory, unless God cut off our life as soon as that act is done: Perseverance to the end is part of our Condition of Glory. And we know of no such difference between Adam's Covenant or Case and ours, as will prove it otherwise with him.
6. Else it would make the Condition of the Covenant of Grace to be much harder and severer than of the Law of Innocency; which is not likely: To perform one act of Love and Obedience, is not so hard as to do it to the death, though we lose our lives in the expressions of it.