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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.
2. But there is also a mediate or conditional dueness of punishment, according to the Law of Grace: which is when a man by not believing and not-repenting at the present, and by neglecting and resisting Grace, doth so far forfeit all Grace and Salvation, as that God may cut him off, and cast him into Hell if he will; not having peremptorily said, that he will do it; nor given men any assurance that he will not. This man is not immediately and fully under the dueness of Hell fire, but on supposition that God should first cut him off; and then his Impenitence would be final, which is the first case: But this person is under all this guilt. 1. Guilty of punishment not forgiven against the Law of Works. 2. He is so far guilty of punishment, according to the Law of Grace, as 1. That no pardon is given him, or due to him. 2. And God may justly take away his Spirit and forsake him. 3. And God may justly cut him ••••. 4. And if God should cut him off, Hell will be his full immediate due.
147. By this it further appeareth, that we cannot be justified as personally 1fulfilling all Righteousness in Christ: Because we are all our life time principally under those great Duties of the Law of Grace, which Christ neither did nor could do for us. We are bound all our days to accept a Saviour, to accept pardon of Sin, and mortifying Grace, to confess our Sins, to repent of them, and sorrow for them; to labour in the use of all Means and Ordinances to mortify them; To do all our duties as Sinners, in that manner as those must do that are in a Physicians hands for Cure; To receive and apply Christ's Merits to that end; to beg his Intercession and daily pardon; To labour that imperfect Grace may be strengthened: In a word, Sin, and a desire of healing, so affect all that the Gospel commandeth us, that Christ was not capable of any of this. And if all this was undone till our Conversion, and much of it undone after our Conversion, and yet Christ never did it for us, not we in him; How can it be said that we are justified by fulfilling all the Law in and by Christ? yea the Law of Nature still commandeth us, to obey the Law of Grace, supposing it made and revealed to us.