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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.
2. No doubt Faith relateth to Christ, and here connoteth him as its Object: It were not Christian Faith else: But it is also related to the New Covenant as its Condition, and in that form hath its place to our Justification, which cannot be denied: Therefore you untruly say, [Only as relating to Christ,] and your words confute your self: You say, [Who hath suffered and done for all that will receive him.] You speak either of secret Decree (and that giveth no Right) or of Covenant Donation: And to say, He and his benefits are given in Covenant to all that will receive him,] is all one as to say, The Covenant giveth them on condition that we receive him]: which is true.
§. 42. M. S. 5. It is impossible that the terms of the Covenant of Grace can be any other than they are: because nothing but receiving him can make him mine.]
An. 1. That proveth not that Faith is not the Condition, but that it needs must be so. 2. It is impossible, now the Covenant is so made, viz. ex necessitate existentiae: But that God could have made it no otherwise, is not a thing for man to say. 3. Confound not passive Reception with ⟨p. 20⟩active moral Reception: Justificari is passively to receive Justification; and to be first related to Christ as mine, or to be one that he is given to, is passively to receive Christ: Active moral receiving is the Wills consenting thus to have him on all his terms, and is the means of the other: It is this and not the other that is Faith: And could not God possibly have made Christ ours, by any alteration of the terms: sure they that confine Faith to the receiving of Christs imputable Righteousness, will grant that God could possibly have put one act more of Faith into the Condition, or on• act of Gratitude, Desire, Love or Repentance? And Dr. Twice thinks he could have given a man a Right to Life without Christ's Satisfaction, and to Christ without Faith, and that so he doth to Infants.