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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
By Sacraments we mean Baptism, or the Lords Supper.
The principal thing that needeth Explication, is the word [Right.] And it signifieth divers things according to the several Objects and Acts to which it is related. 1. A man may give Right to a Benefit, and another receive it divers ways. Either by a Premiant Law, if he be a Superior in Rule; or by a Testament, Promise, or other Donation or Deed of Gift; or by Sale, Exchange, or other contract by way of commutation. […] ⟨p. 352⟩The last is nothing to our case, as the Right is made over to us; for we could not purchase it, though the Right that Christ hath to convey it, may be fitly said to be due in Commutative Justice, as being purchased by him. The Right which we have to Benefits from God, is always by free Donation (for we are capable of no other;) and by a Donation that partaketh of the nature of a Law: This Deed of Gift is called a Promise, Testament, Covenant, &c. in Scripture (for the single promise of God, is oft called a Covenant) the Nature of this Right to Benefits consisteth in the Debitum habendi, the Dueness of them to the person from another.
The principal thing that needeth Explication, is the word [Right.] And it signifieth divers things according to the several Objects and Acts to which it is related. 1. A man may give Right to a Benefit, and another receive it divers waies. Either by a Premiant Law, if he be a Superiour in Rule; or by a Testament, Promise, or other Donation or Deed of Gift; or by Sale, Exchange, or other contract by way of commutation. 〈…〉 ⟨p. 352⟩The last is nothing to our case, as the Right is made over to us; for we could not purchase it, though the Right that Christ hath to convey it, may be fitly said to be due in Commutative Justice, as being purchased by him. The Right which we have to Benefits from God, is alwayes by free Donation (for we are capable of no other;) and by a Donation that partaketh of the natu•e of a Law: This Deed of Gift is called a Promise, Testament, Covenant, &c. in Scripture (for the single promise of God, is oft called a Covenant) the Nature of this Right to Benefits consisteth in the Debitum habendi, the Dueness of them to the person from another.