A26923:424
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.
§. 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.)
§. 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 Phisicians cure their Patients.)
§. 3. Therefore God did enter into Judgment with fallen Man, and did sentence him absolutely to some degree of Punishment, even to Labour, Pain, the penalty of the Cursed Earth, and finally to Death; which Temporal Punishment God would not remit, nor give him a Saviour to procure the pardon of it; but only to the Faithful, to turn all this unto their Benefit, and to deliver them from the greater everlasting Sufferings.
§. 4. And their own sinful pravity and privation of Holiness, and communion with God, which also was their greatest punishment by Consequence, God would not at once, nor in this Life perfectly save them from; and therefore accordingly pardoned them their punishment, but by the forementioned degrees. For he is not perfectly pardoned or saved, who is yet left under so much penalty.