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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.
66. And the Benefits are nevertheless conditionally given, though the Spirit of Christ cause us to perform the Condition: For they are called conditional from the mode or form of the Covenant, which giveth men Right to Christ and Life expressly on condition of believing.
66. And the Benefits are nevertheless conditionally given, though the Spirit of Christ cause us to perform the Condition: For they are called conditional from the mode or form of the Covenant, which giveth men Right to Christ and Life expresly on condition of believing.
67. Though this believing be sometimes described as the assent of the Intellect, and sometimes as the consent of the Will, and sometime as a practical affiance, trusting Christ as a Saviour, to save us, with Soul and Body, to the renouncing and letting go all other trust; Yet when ever Justification and Life is promised to Faith, all these three are the essential parts of it.
68. The clearest discovery of the true nature of Gods Covenant with man, and of that Faith by which we partake of the benefits of it, is in Baptism it self, which hath ever been the entrance of men into Gods Covenant as consented to, and mutual, and so into a visible state of Christianity and membership of Christ and the Catholic Church. And therefore it is happy for us, that Christ so expressly delivered the form of the Baptismal Covenant, and the Universal Church hath so safely in her practice kept it.
68. The clearest discovery of the true nature of Gods Covenant with man, and of that Faith by which we partake of the benefits of it, is in Baptism it self, which hath ever been the entrance of men into Gods Covenant as consented to, and mutual, and so into a visible state of Christianity and membership of Christ and the Catholick Church. And therefore it is happy for us, that Christ so expresly delivered the form of the Baptismal Covenant, and the Universal Church hath so safely in her practice kept it.