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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
The Third Part: OF GOD'S GRACIOUS OPERATIONS ON MANS SOUL: AND THE… › Preface: The Preface.
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2. I was wont in my great Ignorance in my youth to think, that All men were merely under the first Covenant, till Conversion, and then they came under the second only. But this was but Confusion. To be under a Law or offered Covenant, as the terms of life or death, is one thing; And so all are under a Law or Covenant of Grace, and no man under the mere Law of Innocency; obliged to perfection as the sole condition of life: And to be obedient to this Law, and a Consenter to this Covenant, and so to be in the Covenant as Mutual, is another thing; And this is the case of Consenters only.
2. I was wont in my great Ignorance in my youth to think, that All men were meerly under the first Covenant, till Conversion, and then they came under the second only. But this was but Confusion. To be under a Law or offered Covenant, as the terms of life or death, is one thing; And so all are under a Law or Covenant of Grace, and no man under the meer Law of Innocency; obliged to perfection as the sole condition of life: And to be obedient to this Law, and a Consenter to this Covenant, and so to be in the Covenant as Mutual, is another thing; And this is the case of Consenters only.
So that I may take it for granted that we are agreed, that as to the first Edition of the Law of Grace to Adam and Noah, it extendeth or is in force to all the world, at least, till by enmity against Grace, they have made themselves desperate as the Serpents seed: Yea then, the Law of Grace is in force to them, though they reject the Grace of it.
So that I may take it for granted that we are agreed, that as to the first Edition of the Law of Grace to Adam and Noe, it extendeth or is in force to all the world, at least, till by enmity against Grace, they have made themselves desperate as the Serpents seed: Yea then, the Law of Grace is in force to them, though they reject the Grace of it.