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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.
3. We are justified by Doing, though not by our fulfilling the Law of Works, by our selves or another. We are justified by two sort• of Doing: Principally by the Merit of Christ's perfect Righteousness; and subordinately by our fulfilling the Conditions of the Covenant of Grace, (which Baptism celebrateth.)
4. Gods Will approveth of all that is good, so far as it is good: It approveth of habitual Holiness in Adam, and would have done in his Infants had he stood; and doth so in all Christians now: And I will believe that Christ, before he actually obeyed, was under▪ Gods approving Will. But not as one that had merited by Obedience: For God doth not ⟨p. 21⟩suppose any to do that which they do not, nor oblige them to do to-morrows work to-day.
§. 44. M. S. The issue in a word is, 1. Suffering for Sin is not doing, nor equivalent in point of Justification, 2. Nor can God, having satisfaction for what was done cross to his Law, lay aside that in order to the conveying of Life, and substitute believing instead of it. Therefore Faith justifieth ratione objecti only. Now we [Do] in another, Christ, instead of doing in our own persons.