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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.
§. ••. The Promised Benefits (presupposing the ⟨p. 131⟩Common Antecedent Mercies) were Summarily, Christ and Life in him: That is, that for the sake of Christ's future Merits we should have Pardon, Justification, Reconciliation with God, Adoption, Sanctification and Glory, and all necessary Helps and Means thereunto.
§. 21. This Law or Covenant in this first Edition was made with Adam as the Father of all Mankind, and so with all Mankind in him, as truly and as much as the Covenant of Innocency was: For, 1. God's Word maketh no difference. 2. Adam was as much after the Common Father of Mankind, and all we as much in him, as before the Fall. And he that will say that God arbitrarily Judgeth otherwise of us, must prove it if he can. 3. The express Word of God in many places proveth it, joining Children with their Parents in such Blessings, and therefore including the Children of Adam.