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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 23: How Faith justifieth; and how it is imputed to us for Righteousness.
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.
§. 8. 2. No man physically receiveth Christ's Person (as far as we can prove or understand) nor Christ's own Righteousness in it self; but we physically receive our relation to Christ, and the Spirits operations, and our Right to Impunity and Life.
§. 9. 3. We at once sensu physico, receive our relation to Christ as our Head, that is, our redeeming Owner, Ruler and Saviour, or Prophet, as Priest and King; and not to one first, and to another after.
§. 10. 4. In the same instant of time that we receive our relation to Christ, as aforesaid, we receive with him, as his Grace, by the same donative ⟨p. 270⟩act of the Covenant, our Right to Impunity and Life, even to the complacential special Love of the Father, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, and so are justified.
§. 11. 5. Our moral receiving of Christ himself as our Saviour, is the antecedent Condition of our foresaid physical reception or participation, being appointed by God to that use or office.