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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.
170. No man must ascribe any thing to his own Faith or Holiness i• the least degree, which is proper to, 1. Gods Mercy or Grace. 2. To Christ, or his Righteousness or Merits. 3. Or to the Covenant: not any thing but its proper part: And that must be granted it.
171. It is a vain Fiction in them that think our Right to Justification or Impunity, and our Right to Salvation, have not the same causes and conditions, but that our own Repentance and Obedience is a condition of our Right to Salvation, but not to Impunity or forgiveness. Whereas ou• very Justification is a justifying of our Right to Salvation, and the same Covenant giveth them conjunctly on the same conditions.
171. It is a vain Fiction in them that think our Right to Justificatio• or Impunity, and our Right to Salvation, have not the same causes and conditions, but that our own Repentance and Obedience is a condition of our Right to Salvation, but not to Impunity or forgiveness. Whereas ou• very Justification is a justifying of our Right to Salvation, and the same Covenant giveth them conjunctly on the same conditions.
172. But our Right to both as begun, hath less for the condition th•• our Right to them as continued and perfected. For our believing▪ consent to the Baptismal-Covenant putteth us into immediate Right to all the benefits of the Covenant which we are then capable of, but not to all that we shall be made further capable of hereafter; we are pardoned, and should be glorified, if we presently died: But as we have more Grace to receive, so we have more Duty to perform as a means, yea a condition, of obtaining it.