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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.
SECT. IV. Of the New Covenant, or the Law of Grace in the Second Edition.
60. The New Covenant is Christs Law of Grace; his Instrument by which he giveth Title or Right to the Benefits promised, and conveyeth Right to the Fruits of his Sacrifice and Merits; And his Law by which he governeth the Church as a Saviour, in order to Recovery and Salvation.
It hath greatly scandalized the Papists against us to find some old Pr• testants deny Christ to be a Law-Giver, and in his Gospel to have a Law. The case is sad, that any in opposition to others should run into such an Antinomian extreme: They are unlike to be good Preachers of Christ's Law, who maintain that he hath no Law: And there can be no sin against it, nor expectation of being judged by it, if he have none. And he is no King and Ruler, if he have no Law. But yet let the Papists forbear i• ••ing, and remember that the true meaning of most of them is no more, than to assert what Suarez himself propugneth, viz. that besides Revelations, and the Duties thence naturally resulting, (by natural Law) and the Sacraments, Christ hath no other Laws. And both Suarez and they are here to blame (for the Papists that are by some accused for calling the Gospel a Law, do also give too little honour to Christ's Laws); It beseemeth none of them to use such ill Language, what-ever they mean. If they should say that the King is no Law-Giver, and hath no Laws, they would wrong him by that Language (as denying his Royalty) how well soever they should interpret it. For the Legislative-Power is the principal essential part of Sovereignty. But if any really deny Christ to be a Law-Giver, and when he hath done reproacheth the Papists and Arminians for contradicting it; it is but as the blind reproaching the purblind for seeing; when they that give most to the Laws of Christ (among these Contenders) do give too little.