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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 5: Of the Law or Covenant of Grace in the last Edition, or the Gospel.
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.
§. 1. Whether the Covenant of Grace in the first edition to Adam, and this of the second edition by Christ, shall be called One or Two, the same or dive•s, and the old Church and the Gospel-Church the same or not the same in specie, are but needless questions about the bare Name of Oneness, as long as we agree wherein they differ, and wherein they differ not. In some respects they may be called the same, and in some not the same.
§. 1. VVHether the Covenant of Grace in the first edition to Adam, and this of the second edition by Christ, shall be called One or Two, the same or dive•s, and the old Church and the Gospel-Church the same or not the same in specie, are but needless questions about the bare Name of Oneness, as long as we agree wherein they differ, and wherein they differ not. In some respects they may be called the same, and in some not the same.
§. 2. The Parties in the first Covenant of Grace were really but two: GOD and Man (unless you could prove that Christ had then such a superangelical Nature in which he mediated, as some before mentioned hold). But the Parties in the new Covenant of Grace are really Three, viz. GOD as the absolutely Supreme, who gave us a Mediator; and Christ the Mediator, as the supreme Subadministrator to whom all Power is given, and Man the Subject to both.
§. 3. The Benefits of the first Edition, respected a future Saviour and his future Righteousness, Sacrifice, and Merits: But the Benefits of the second Edition respect an existent Mediator and his merits and sacrifice already performed, and accepted of God.
§. 3. The Benefits of the first Edition, respected a future Saviour and his future Righteousness, Sacrifice, and Mrits: But the Benefits of the second Edition respect an existent Mediator and his merits and sacrifice already performed, and accepted of God.