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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.
CHAP. II.
Lib. II. You should teach men to believe that all our own Righteousness is as filthy rags, abominable to God, and to be cast away with our sins: And that we are neither to trust to, nor to look at any thing in our selves, for justification, or acceptance with God, or to procure eternal life: But that Christ hath both satisfied for our sins, and fulfilled the Law of Innocency for us. God imputed our sins to him, and he was by Imputation the greatest sinner in all the world; the greatest murderer, thief, fornicator, perjured person, rebel and ungodly man: For the sins of all the Elect did meet upon him, and were his: Therefore he was forsaken of God, and suffered the same Hell that we deserved. And God imputeth all his satisfaction and righteousness so to us, as that in Gods account all the Elect (or at least All believers) did satisfy and fulfil all the Law in and by Christ: For he was our surety; and our Legal Person, ⟨p. 224⟩though not our Natural person. So that what Christ was we were, and what Christ did we did, and what Christ suffered we suffered, in Gods •• count or imputation: And so we are as righteous as Christ himself, because all Christs righteousness is ours. And we have no other, nor need no other Righteousness, at least in order to our Justification: This Righteousness of Christ is it by which we are Justified by the Law of works, which saith, [Obey perfectly, or Do this and Live;] For we Did all that is required in and by Christ: In this Righteousness only God accepteth us: We have Right to it from eternity by Gods Decree of Election: and our Consciences perceive our right upon our Believing; And to set men on Doing themselves for Life, when they should only Do from Life, is to deceive them and undo them.