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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 12 › Section 2: Of the Law of Mediation or Covenant with CHRIST.
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.
SECT. II. Of the Law of Mediation or Covenant with CHRIST.
§. 1. AS the Mediator in Person and Office, differed from all other Creatures, so he was under a Law and Covenant, proper to himself.
§. 2. This Law and Covenant was made to and with Christ incarnate: For so he was a Subject under Law. It is too bold, improper and offensive a Phrase to call God's eternal Decree of Redemption by the Name of a Law, yea, or a Covenant of God with Himself, that is, of the Father with the Son.
§. 3. Therefore all the Descriptions of it in the Old Testament, are but Prophecies and Promises containing the terms of the future Covenant; (as we call a form of Prayer, a Prayer, though it be but matter fitted to be a Prayer when it hath the formal act.) But Christ had truly a Law and Promises.