A26883:1475
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.
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.
- 1How far Christ died for sins against the Law of Grace.
2. If by the first Covenant you mean, the bare command of perfect perpetual Obedience, Christ died for sins against that command which is still in force, but not as a Covenant of Life given on that condition.