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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.
3. If by the first Covenant, you mean the punitive part of the Law of Innocency, saying, [Thou shalt die if thou obey not perfectly.] So Christ died for all our Sins in the strictest sense, even as we are condemnable for them by that Law. And that part also of the Law continueth to make punishment our due in primo instanti, though with an adjoined remedy.
3. If by the first Covenant, you mean the punitive part of the Law of Innocency, saying, [Thou shalt die if thou obey not perfectly.] So Christ died for all our Sins in the strictest sense, even as we are condemnable for them by that Law. And that part also of the Law continueth to make punishment our due in primo instanti, though with an adjoyned remedy.
4. If by the New Covenant, you mean the mere preceptive part of Christ's supernaturally-revealed Law, or of the foresaid Law of Nature, as in the hands of Christ, so Christ died for sins against the Law of Christ. 2. If by the New Covenant or Law you mean, the Promise and Threatening of Christs Law, or either; so Sin may be said to be against them in two senses: 1. Objectively, as they are neglected by us: And so that Sin formally is only against the Precept, and Christ died for it. 2. Or as the ⟨p. 68⟩Sin hath punishment threatened by the Sanction, and no pardon given by the Promise: And so Sin is in two senses also against the said Sanction: that is, 1. When it is such a Sin as the Promise giveth no pardon to conditionally, And such as the commination peremptorily condemneth the Sinner for to remediless misery. And this Sin is the final non-perf•rmance of the Gospel-Condition (Faith and Repentance). And such only are fully obliged to suffer Hell by the commination of the Law of Grace: And for such Sin Christ never died: not because he never died for the person as to any other sin, or for any benefit, as some teach: But because, 1. He resolved never to die for that sin it self, (of final Unbelief, Impenitence and Unholiness.) 2. And because he never died to satisfy his own Law of Grace, and to take off its proper full obligation to final punishment; but only to satisfy God instead of mans suffering what the Law of Works obliged him to.