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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.
You seem not to set Adam's Merits and imputed Righteousness any •igher than Christ's. And I am too sure that the justified Members of Christ do sin, and must ask daily pardon; And whether or not they be confirmed against total Apostasy, I am sure few if any of them are confirmed against the possibility, or existence, or futurity of Sin, And if you say that Adam's Posterity, though confirmed, should have sinned too, but should have been pardoned as we are; It would be another presumptuous addition and contradiction of Scripture, to assert Pardon without a Saviour and a pardoning Covenant.
You seem not to set Adam's Merits and imputed Righteousness any •igher than Christ's. And I am too sure that the justified Members of Christ do sin, and must ask daily pardon; And whether or not they be confirmed against total Apostasie, I am sure few if any of them are confirmed against the possibility, or existence, or futurity of Sin, And if you say that Adam's Posterity, though confirmed, should have sinned too, but should have been pardoned as we are; It would be another presumptuous addition and contradiction of Scripture, to assert Pardon without a Saviour and a pardoning Covenant.
3. Adam's Obedience would have justified his next issue from this false Accusation, [You are born of a sinful Parent, or not of a righteous Parent]. But it would have justified no man against this Accusation, [You are personally a Sinner, or have not personally loved God and obeyed him]. Therefore it would have justified any man against this Charge, [You are to be condemned for Adam's sin]. But it would have justified no man against these Charges, [You are to be condemned for your own personal Sin; or, you have no right to Glory by Gods Promise to the adult, which maketh their personal Obedience the Condition].