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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 25: Of good Works and Merit, and trusting to any thing of our own.
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.
§. 12. 2. The Works of the Mosaical Jewish Law, are neither necessary necessitate praecepti vel medii, that Law not binding us as such.
§. 13. 3. Obedience to Man's Laws is not necessary, when the matter is forbidden us by God's Laws, or when they are Laws without power; that is, such as men have no Authority to make.
§. 14. 4. No Works of special Grace are antecedently necessary to our reception of that Grace, o• of its necessary means.
§. 15. 5. No external acts of sincere Obedience, distinct from internal Faith, and Repentance, and Consent, are necessary before to our first Justification; that is, to our right to Impunity and life in Christ.
§. 16. 6. Even internal Obedience to Christ as Christ, distinct from our Obedience to God as God, and our Subjection to Christ (or Consent to be his Subjects, and obey him) is not before necessary to our part in Christ, or our Union, or Justification, as in its first state or beginning.