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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.
129. And this seemeth the very core of their error, that they th•• 1we must be justified in Christ by the Law of Innocency, which justified Christ himself; and that we are quit or washed simply from all guilt of fault, as well as obligation to punishment: which is a great untruth, contrary to all the scope of the Gospel, which assureth us, that we are justified by the Law of Grace or Faith, and not by the Law of Works: That Christ freeth us from the curse and penalty of the Law: which he could not do, if we were reputed never to have deserved it, as never being Sinners. If we are reputed such as fulfilled the Law of Innocency (by another in our civil person, or as fully representing us,) all the Gospel is over-turned: There is no room for Repentance, none for the satisfaction of Christ, none for Faith in his blood, nor for Pardon, or prayer for Pardon, or any Grace, Act, Duty or Ordinance, Sacraments, Confession, or any thing which supposeth Sin.
- 1Of this see wotton de Reconcil. at large.
To say that Adam's Law meant, [Do this, by thy self or by Christ, and thou shalt live,] is a Humane fiction, not found in Scripture, confounding the Law of Innocency with the Gospel: And to say that the New Covenant maketh us one Person with Christ, and then the Law of Ad•• doth justify us, is a double error. We are not reputed one Person with Christ; nor doth the first Covenant justify any but the Person that performeth it. But we maintain as well as they, that the same Righteousness of God in himself, is manifested in both Covenants, and the same holy love of perfect Obedience, and the ends of the first Covenant are secured by the second. But the tenor and terms are not the same, nor the Righteousness of the subject as denominated from those terms. It is not the same Law which condemneth us and justifieth us, nor that justifieth ⟨p. 63⟩