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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. It is certain that Christ hath so fulfilled the Law of Works, as to Merit for us.
4. The Redeemed are not Masterless, but have still a Lord, who hath now a double Right to govern them: And this Governor giveth them a Law: And this Law requireth us to do good works, as much as we are able, (though not so terribly yet) as obligingly as the Law of Works: And by this Law (of Christ) we must be Judged: And thus we must be judged according to our works: and to be judged 1is nothing else but to be Justified or Condemned: Such works therefore are Rewardable according to the Distributive Justice of the Law of Grace, by which we must be Judged: And the ancient Fathers who (without any opposition) spoke of Good works as Meritorious with God, meant no more, but that they were such as the Righteous Judge of the world will Reward according to the Law of Grace, by which he judgeth us. And this doctrine being agreed on as certain truth, there is no controversy left with them, but whether the word Merit was properly or improperly used: And that both Scripture and our common speech alloweth the Fathers use of the word, I have showed at large in my Confession.
4. The Redeemed are not Masterless, but have still a Lord, who hath now a double Right to govern them: And this Governour giveth them a Law: And this Law requireth us to do good works, as much as we are able, (though not so terribly yet) as obligingly as the Law of Works: And by this Law (of Christ) we must be Iudged: And thus we must be judged according to our works: and to be judged 1is nothing else but to be Iustified or Condemned: Such works therefore are Rewardable according to the Distributive Iustice of the Law of Grace, by which we must be Iudged: And the antient Fathers who (without any opposition) spoke of Good works as Meritorious with God, meant no more, but that they were such as the Righteous Iudge of the world will Reward according to the Law of Grace, by which he judgeth us. And this doctrine being agreed on as certain truth, there is no controversie left with them, but whether the word Merit was properly or improperly used: And that both Scripture and our common speech alloweth the Fathers use of the word, I have shewed at large in my Confession.