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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.
5. There are all these differences between our Justification according to the first Law (had we been capable of it) and that which we now have. 1. One would have been by God as Creator and Legislator to the Innocent: The other by Christ as Redeemer and Legislator to the sinful World. 2. One would have been for personal, perfect, persevering Obedience: The other for Christ's Merits, as purchasing a free Pardon & Grace to penitent Believers, and upon our own Faith and Repentance, as the Conditions of the new Covenant. 3. One would have been without pardon; and the other chiefly or much by pardon: In one, if our Public Root had perfectly obeyed, we must also have perfectly obeyed, or die. In the other, because our Public Root did perfectly obey, Faith and sincere Obedience to the end, is all that is required of us to ou• Glory. 4. In one the personal matter of worthiness or merit, must have been all that perfection which God in justice could require of man: In the other, it is only, The acceptance of a free Gift, according to its nature and use, and after the thankful use and improvement of it: with other such differences.
5. There are all these differences between our Justification according to the first Law (had we been capable of it) and that which we now have. 1. One would have been by God as Creator and Legislator to the Innocent: The other by Christ as Redeemer and Legislator to the sinful World. 2. One would have been for personal, perfect, persevering Obedience: The other for Christ's Merits, as purchasing a free Pardon & Grace to penitent Believers, and upon our own Faith and Repentance, as the Conditions of the new Covenant. 3. One would have been without pardon; and the other chiefly or much by pardon: In one, if our Publick Root had perfectly obeyed, we must also have perfectly obeyed, or die. In the other, because our Publick Root did perfectly obey, Faith and sinceere Obedience to the end, is all that is required of us to ou• Glory. 4. In one the personal matter of worthiness or merit, must have been all that perfection which God in justice could require of man: In the other, it is only, The acceptance of a free Gift, according to its nature and use, and after the thankful use and improvement of it: with other such differences.