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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
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.
CHAP. XI. Of our Redemption by Christ.
§. 1. SIN having made Man guilty and depraved, unfit for duty and felicity, odious to the most Holy Righteous God, and liable to his Justice, the eternal Wisdom and Word of God did interpose, and by Mercy did save Man from the deserved rigour of Justice, promising Actual Redemption ⟨p. 88⟩in the fullness of time, and on that supposition giving fallen Man a pardoning and saving Law (or Covenant of Grace) with answerable help of his Spirit and Means, and outward Mercies fitted to his Recovery and Salvation.
§. 1. SIN having made Man guilty and depraved, unfit for duty and felicity, odious to the most Holy Righteous God, and lyable to his Justice, the eternal Wisdom and Word of God did interpose, and by Mercy did save Man from the deserved rigour of Justice, promising Actual Redemption ⟨p. 88⟩in the fulness of time, and on that supposition giving fallen Man a pardoning and saving Law (or Covenant of Grace) with answerable help of his Spirit and Means, and outward Mercies fitted to his Recovery and Salvation.
§. 2. But God would not have this Recovery and Salvation to be perfect at the first; but gave Man a certain proportion of Common Deliverance and Mercy, binding him to a Course of Duty, in the performance of which he should receive more by degrees till he were perfected. (As Physicians cure their Patients.)