A26923:968
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. XXII. Of the Imputation of Righteousness.
§. 1. THE great Contentions that have been about this Point, tell us how needful it is to distinguish between real and verbal Controversies: The opening of the Doctrine of Redemption before, Chap. XI. hath done most that is needful to the solution of this Case, we are commonly agreed in these following Points.
§. 1. THE great Contentions that have been about this Point, tell us how needfull it is to distinguish between real and verbal Controversies: The opening of the Doctrine of Redemption before, Chap. XI. hath done most that is needful to the solution of this Case, we are commonly agreed in these following Points.
§. 2. 1. That no man hath a Righteousness of his own performance, by which he could be justified, were he to be judged by the Law of Innocency; that is, all are Sinners, and deserve everlasting Death.
§. 3. 2. That Jesus the Mediator undertook to fulfil all the Law which God the Father gave him, even the Law of Nature, the Law of Moses, and that which was proper to himself, that thereby God's Wisdom, Goodness, Truth, Justice, and Mercy, might be glorified, and the ends of God's Government be better attained, than by the Destruction of the sinful World; and all this he performed in our Nature, and suffered for us in our stead; and was the second Adam, or Root to Believers.