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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 3: Of the Law or Covenant of Grace in the first Edition.
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.
§. 14. But the Supernatural Revelation telleth us much more than all this, Of the promised Seed, the means of our Salvation, and of our Duty in believing them, and of the Certainty and Nature of the Pardon, Deliverance, and Blessedness which we shall attain.
§. 15. The •receptive part at first was not to Believe as much of Christ, as is necessary since his Ascension; but to Believe what God promised and revealed of him to the Church at that time.
§. 16. Even under the Old Testament, God increased his Revelation of the Messiah gradually: The Prophets spake plainlier of him, than any thing written before. Therefore a more extensive and distinct belief, was needful in one Age than in a former.
§. 17. Yet, even the Apostles were in a state of Salvation, before they understood and believed, that Christ must D•• for Sin, rise again, Ascend and Intercede in Heaven for his Elect.