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,…

And now he that (considering all this) believes, 1. That Christ is no King, 2. Or we no Subjects, 3. Or that he hath no Law of Grace or Covenant, which we are under, 4. Or that this Law, or Covenant, will not justify them that perform that Condition, (from legal-executive damnation, by giving them Pardon, and Right to Life, for the Merits of Christ): 5. And that Faith, Repentance, and persevering holy Obedience, will not materially justify any man that hath the• from the charge of having no part in Christ, because of Infidelity, Impenitency, Unholiness or Apostasy; 6. Or that he that performeth the Gospel-Conditions shall not be judged rewardable, or evangelically worthy of the promised Reward; 7. Or that the same thing which as Good and a Benefit is a Gift absolutely free against commutative Merit, is not yet quoad ordinem conferendi & recipi•ndi a true Reward. 8. And so that we have no Reward for any Works but what Christ did in his own Person. 9. And that the Judgment-Day will be to try whether Christ did his part or not, and so to judge him, and not to try whether we have part in him, and did our parts or not, by repenting, believing, loving, obeying and overcoming, and so to justify us, primarily by his Merits and Covenant, and subordinately by our performance of the Conditions; And 10. He that believes that instead of all this, we our selves did by Christ as our legal Person both keep all the Law of Works from first to last, and merit Life, and also satisfy Gods Justice for not keeping the Law, and so redeem our selves, or suffer in Christ for our own Sins, and purchase Pardon and Salvation for our selves: 11. Or that God accounteth us so to have done, what we did not: 12. And so that it is the Law of Works and Innocency by which we our selves are justified: 13. And that for meriting in Christ we are fixed presently in the immutable state of eternal life, which is the Reward: 14. And that this is not a Reward to Christ only, but to us as Meriters in him; He that can believe all this, with abundance more of the Libertine new Gospel-Doctrine (commonly called Antinomian) which dependeth on it; doth quite differ from my Faith, who believe that Christ suffered, satisfied, fulfilled the Law, and merited in the Person of a free Mediator only;

And now he that (considering all this) believes, 1. That Christ is no King, 2. Or we no Subjects, 3. Or that he hath no Law of Grace or Covenant, which we are under, 4. Or that this Law, or Covenant, will not justifie them that perform that Condition, (from legal-executive damnation, by giving them Pardon, and Right to Life, for the Merits of Christ): 5. And that Faith, Repentance, and persevering holy Obedience, will not materially justifie any man that hath the from the charge of having no part in Christ, because of Infidelity, Impenitency, Unholiness or Apostacy; 6. Or that he that performeth the Gospel-Conditions shall not be judged rewardable, or evangelically worthy of the promised Reward; 7. Or that the same thing which as Good and a Benefit is a Gift absolutely free against commutative Merit, is not yet quoad ordinem conferendi & recipindi a true Reward. 8. And so that we have no Reward for any Works but what Christ did in his own Person. 9. And that the Judgment-Day will be to try whether Christ did his part or not, and so to judge him, and not to try whether we have part in him, and did our parts or not, by repenting, believing, loving, obeying and overcoming, and so to justifie us, primarily by his Merits and Covenant, and subordinately by our performance of the Conditions; And 10. He that believes that instead of all this, we our selves did by Christ as our legal Person both keep all the Law of Works from first to last, and merit Life, and also satisfie Gods Justice for not keeping the Law, and so redeem our selves, or suffer in Christ for our own Sins, and purchase Pardon and Salvation for our selves: 11. Or that God accounteth us so to have done, what we did not: 12. And so that it is the Law of Works and Innocency by which we our selves are justified: 13. And that for meriting in Christ we are fixed presently in the immutable state of eternal life, which is the Reward: 14. And that this is not a Reward to Christ only, but to us as Meriters in him; He that can believe all this, with abundance more of the Libertine new Gospel-Doctrine (commonly called Antinomian) which dependeth on it; doth quite differ from my Faith, who believe that Christ suffered, satisfied, fulfilled the Law, and merited in the Person of a free Mediator only;