A26883:1474
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.
144. Christ did and suffered in the common nature of man, though not in the person of each Sinner. And mans nature is so far redeemed by him, that for the mere Original Sin of nature alone, no man shall perish, unless he add the rejection of Grace; (of which somewhat is said before.) But yet as Nature existeth only in persons, so it is all persons, who have this much benefit and more. But that he merited and satisfied in our Nature, is a proper speech, and truer than that he did it in our persons.
144. Christ did and suffered in the common nature of man, though not in the person of each Sinner. And mans nature is so far redeemed by him, that for the meer Original Sin of nature alone, no man shall perish, unless he add the rejection of Grace; (of which somewhat is said before.) But yet as Nature existeth only in persons, so it is all persons, who have this much benefit and more. But that he merited and satisfied in our Nature, is a proper speech, and truer than that he did it in our persons.
145. But all this similitude of a Creditor and Debtor, is to be limited in the application, according to the great difference of Sin and Debt, which will infer a great diversity in the consequents; which may easily be collected by the Reader.
146. As to the great and weighty question, whether Christ died for 1sins against the New Covenant, or only for those against the old: I answer, Distinction is here notoriously necessary. 1. If by the old Covenant, or first Covenant, you mean the conditional Promise, [Be perfect and live] no sin since Adam's is against that conditional Promise, because it ceased through mans incapacity, upon the Fall; And Christ died not only for the first sin.