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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.
SECT. XIII. Of the degrees of Pardon or Justification.
207. Some men lest they should yield that Justification is not one perfect finished act done but once, do feign that it is only the first act of Faith by which a man is justified. Indeed it is only the first act by which he •s changed from an unrighteous to a righteous state: But to think that therefore we are never after justified by Faith, and so have no actually justifying Faith all our lives, but for one instant only, is fitter for a Dreamer than a theological Discourser.
208. Our first constitutive Justification, being in its nature a right to impunity, and to Life or Glory, *is a Relation which must be continued to the end, and therefore must have the true causes and condition continued, and would cease if any of them ceased.
208. Our first constitutive Justification, being in its nature a right to •mpunity, and to Life or Glory, *