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,…

Yet we maintain that the preceptive part of the Law of Innocency as to the future, is still in force to all men [Obey perfectly;] And that the penal part is so far in force as to make death in the first instant due for every sin: But we add, 1. That the Remedying pardoning Law being in force with it, doth immediately dissolve that obligation, and make it uneffectual to the punishment of believers: 2. And that the Promising part of the Covenant of Innocency is utterly ceased by the cessation of mans capacity: And therefore that the Preceptive part (for perfection) is now no Condition of Life to any man.

Two things I was wont in my Ignorance to say against the universal tenor of the new Covenant. 1. That God distinguished and excluded some at the first making of it, under the name of the Seed of the Serpent: But 1. No Scripture giveth us the least ground to think that men equally guilty, are some called the Seed of the Serpent, and some of the Woman, merely as denominated from or distinguished by Gods own will or decree, without any real difference in the persons. 2. And if the Image of Satan in Original sin, were it that denominated the Seed of the Serpent, then all the world should be excluded, because all are such before they are regenerate. 3. Therefore it is plain that it is not mere Original sin that denominateth any one, the Serpents Seed, in the sense of that Text, but a consequent rejection and opposition of the Mediator or Grace of the new Covenant.

Two things I was wont in my Ignorance to say against the universal tenour of the new Covenant. 1. That God distinguished and excluded some at the first making of it, under the name of the Seed of the Serpent: But 1. No Scripture giveth us the least ground to think that men equally guilty, are some called the Seed of the Serpent, and some of the Woman, meerly as denominated from or distinguished by Gods own will or decree, without any real difference in the persons. 2. And if the Image of Satan in Original sin, were it that denominated the Seed of the Serpent, then all the world should be excluded, because all are such before they are regenerate. 3. Therefore it is plain that it is not meer Original sin that denominateth any one, the Serpents Seed, in the sence of that Text, but a consequent rejection and opposition of the Mediator or Grace of the new Covenant.