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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.
133. And it is certain, that Christ's Sufferings are first satisfactory and then meritorious, being a part of his Active, that is, voluntary O• dience. And Christ's Holiness and Obedience are meritorious of pardon •• Sin, as well as of Salvation.
134. If there be (as there is) any thing which is given us throug•• Christ, more than our own Innocency or Obedience would have m••• ted, the Gift of that is more than remission of Sin; And is to be ascribe• ⟨p. 65⟩accordingly to the Purchase of Christ's Merits. But yet both his Holiness and Sufferings (though not as sufferings) did merit it: And that was not a fulfilling of the Law in our stead.
135. This superadded Gift (what-ever it is) seemeth in Scripture to be included in Adoption, and not in Justification: But yet it may in this sense be called Justification, in that when our Right to that Gift is questioned, that Right must be justified by the Covenant-Donation, and by Christ's meritorious Purchase of it. But this is only de nomine: We are agreed of the thing.