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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.
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⟩Christ and us; nor is it the same Habits, or Acts, which are the immediate fundamentum of the Relation of righteous in Christ and in us, •ough his Righteousness be the meritorious cause of ours. And therefore not the same with the thing merited.
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 justifie us, is a double error. We are not reputed one Person with Christ; nor doth the first Covenant justifie 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 tenour 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⟩Christ and us; nor is it the same Habits, or Acts, which are the immedi••e fundamentum of the Relation of righteous in Christ and in us, •ough his Righteousness be the meritorious cause of ours. And therere not the same with the thing merited.