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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. Exchange is an ambiguous word: Here is no proper exchange. Faith is not a fulfilling of the Law of Innocency, nor so reputed by God: Christ did both satisfy for our not-fulfilling it, and also by that and by fulfilling it himself (not in our persons, but his own) did merit the free Gift of Life to us to be ours, upon new Covenant terms, and Faith and Repentance are the Conditions of that New Covenant, and so are that Duty which is laid on our selves to do instead of perfect Obedience, supposing Christ's Satisfaction and Merits, which are instead of it quoad precium or principally, as our said acts are instead of it as to what is necessary in our selves: And the Apostle who so oft saith, Faith is imputed to us for Righteousness, doth neither by Faith, mean Christ, nor mean that Faith is imputed as a fulfilling the Law of Works: But that having no such merit of our own, (or Righteousness) our believing in him that hath satisfied and merited for us, is reckoned to us instead of a Righteousness or Merit, as being all that now is necessary to our Justification in our selves, (our persevering Obedience being afterward necessary to our Glory.)
An. 1. Exchange is an ambiguous word: Here is no proper exchange. Faith is not a fulfilling of the Law of Innocency, nor so reputed by God: Christ did both satisfie for our not-fulfilling it, and also by that and by fulfilling it himself (not in our persons, but his own) did merit the free Gift of Life to us to be ours, upon new Covenant terms, and Faith and Repentance are the Conditions of that New Covenant, and so are that Duty which is laid on our selves to do instead of perfect Obedience, supposing Christ's Satisfaction and Merits, which are instead of it quoad precium or principally, as our said acts are instead of it as to what is necessary in our selves: And the Apostle who so oft saith, Faith is imputed to us for Righteousness, doth neither by Faith, mean Christ, nor mean that Faith is imputed as a fulfilling the Law of Works: But that having no such merit of our own, (or Righteousness) our believing in him that hath satisfied and merited for us, is reckoned to us instead of a Righteousness or Merit, as being all that now is necessary to our Justification in our selves, (our persevering Obedience being afterward necessary to our Glory.)