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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.
§. 37. 17. The World and Conscience will judge us much according to our Works.
§. 38. 18. The same Law of Grace being the Rule of Duty and of Judgment, God will judge all men according to their Works, required by that Law, by justifying or condemning them.
§. 38. 18. The same Law of Grace being the Rule of Duty and of Iudgment, God will judge all men according to their Works, required by that Law, by justifying or condemning them.
§. 39. 19. Final justification and glorification are the Rewards of Evangelical Obedience; and the reason rendered of Christ's justifying Sentence, Matth. 25. (& passim) is from such acts of Man, as qualifying them for the free Gift of God.
§. 40. 20. There is a moral goodness in these Works of Man, by which through Christ, they are pleasing to God, which is their aptitude to this acceptance and reward.