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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.
2. But if the meaning be that [Christs merit and satisfaction, by perfect holiness, and obedience, and suffering, are supposed or Reputed by God to have been inherent in us, or done by us in our civil person in Christ; or that in a sense natural or Legal we did all those things our selves, or that God judgeth us so to have done, by Judging Christ and us to be the same civil person; or else that all the Benefits of Christs Righteousness shall as fully and immediately be ours, as if we had been, and done, and suffered, merited and satisfied in and by Christ; All this is false.
2. But if the meaning be that [Christs merit and satisfaction, by perfect holiness, and obedience, and suffering, are supposed or Reputed by God to have been inherent in us, or done by us in our civil person in Christ; or that in a sence natural or Legal we did all those things our selves, or that God judgeth us so to have done, by Judging Christ and us to be the same civil person; or else that all the Benefits of Christs Righteousness shall as fully and immediately be ours, as if we had been, and done, and suffered, merited and satisfyed in and by Christ; All this is false.
120. For if this were so, we could need no pardon; for he that is reputed to be Innocent, by fulfilling all the Law, is reputed never to have sinned, by omission or commission: And he can have no pardon of sin, who hath no sin to be pardoned. Therefore such an Imputation of Christs Righteousness to us, would make his satisfaction null or vain, or certainly neither imputable to us, nor useful for us.
121. Some to avoid this do divide the Time of our Lives, and suppose Christs sufferings to have satisfied and purchased pardon of our sins, for all the Time before our Believing, and his Righteousness to be imputed to us for the Time since our Believing: But this is a humane fiction: For our sins after believing must have pardon too, by Christ's satisfaction.