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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.
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.
An. 1. This last I accept as true, and more than some will grant. 2. The first is above our reach: only we can say, both that God giveth more Grace to some than to others freely. 3. And yet he himself is simple and immutable in causing of various and mutable Effects.
§. 29. M. S. By Christs passive Obedience imputed we are pardoned and justified, and by his active imputed we deserve the Reward, and are under Gods approving Will.
§. 29. M. S. By Christs passive Obedience imputed we are pardoned and •ustified, and by his active imputed we deserve the Reward, and are under Gods approving Will.
An. 1. By the merit of his habitual, active and passive, that is, of his performing all his mediatorial Covenant with the Father, we are pardoned, and justified, and adopted to eternal life, principally as a Reward to Christ (not to us as meriting by him) and subordinately, according to Gospel-Justice or Order, as a Reward to Believers for their Faith and Obedience; by him who will Reward every man according to his Works, and will be glorified in his Saints, and admired in Believers, because they believed, 2 Thess. 1. 6, to 12. We are under Gods approving Will, principally as united to Christ, reconciled, justified, adopted; and subordinately as sanctified and obedient. For the Father loveth us, because we have loved Christ and believed, Joh. 16. 27. And it is life eternal to know the Father and the Son, Joh. 17. 3. And because we do those things that are pleasing in his sight, what-ever we ask we receive,