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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.
§. 20. 10. No preparatory Works of Man's (I think) are absolutely before necessary to God's effectual converting of him, (unless you will call the Acts of Nature, by which he is fit to hear and think, preparatory Works unfitly): For God can give his Grace to unprepared Souls.
§. 21. On the affirmative also we are agreed, 1. That all Mankind are under God's Government by some Law, and owe Him Obedience to that Law.
§. 22. 2. That it is only Disobedience that God punisheth according to the Penal part of that Law which men live under.
§. 23. 3. That it is only Obedience which God rewardeth, according to the rewarding or promissory part of the Law that men are under.
§. 24. 4. That the Law of Grace (and not only that of Innocency) hath its Commands of Obedience, and Promises of Reward.