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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
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.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Universality and Sufficiency of Grace.
§. 1. IT was not only the Nature of the Elect, but of all Mankind, that Christ assumed in his Incarnation.
§. 2. It was not to Adam only, as the Father of the Elect, but as the common Father of Mankind (lapsed) that God made the Promise, or conditional Law, or Covenant of Grace, Gen. 3. 15. And so renewed it with Noah.
§. 3. It was not the sin of the Elect only, but of all Mankind that were the occasion of Christ's ⟨p. 155⟩sufferings, (called by some, An assumed meritorious Cause, because by his consent they were loco Causae meritoriae.)
§. 4. It is not to the Elect only, but for all the World (as to the Tenor of it) that Christ hath purchased, and given a conditional Pardon of sin, and a conditional Donation of Life eternal in the Covenant of Grace, both of the first and second Edition: That is, the conditional Grant is Universal; Whoever believeth shall be saved: Though the Promulgation of it may have many stops.