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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
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.
54. The matter of Christ's meritorious Righteousness, was his perfect fulfilling the Law given him as Mediator, or the performance of the Conditions of his mediatorial Covenant: From which resulted the Merit, so the Dueness of all the Benefits which God had promised in that Covenant as to Christ, though mostly for men. This was the Righteousness of Christ for man, and hence arose his Merit for us.
55. The matter of his Law of Redemption required of him was threefold, 1. That he should by habitual and actual perfect Holiness fulfil the first Law of Nature or Innocency which Adam broke; not just as it obliged Adam, in every point, but as it was common to man, and belonged to Christ as Man. 2. That he should fulfil all the Law of Moses given only to the Jews. 3. That he should perform the great things peculiar to himself as Mediator; which were to be a Sacrifice for Sin, to do his Miracles, to teach the Church as its Head: to Rule it, and to appoint Orders and Officers for it, to rise again, to conquer Satan, Death and Sin, &c.
56. That Christ did not fulfil all the Law in our persons, so as that we did it in and by himself, and are thereby justified, is further evident, in that he did not all the Duties which the Law bound us to perform, and for not doing of which we are truly Sinners. He did not do any of the proper Offices of a Husband to a Wife, or of a Wife to a Husband; of a Father to Children; of a Servant, or a hired day-labourer to a Master; of a Magistrate (King, Judge, &c.) to Subjects: of a Captain to Soldiers, or Soldiers to their Captain; of a Landlord to Tenants; of such as have great riches towards the poor: of the sick, the imprisoned, and abundance such like. Besides the personal Laws given to Adam in the Garden, to Noah, to Abraham, to David, •••• Solomon, the Prophets, and such others. Christ did not these same for us; nor we fulfilled not these particular Laws in him.