A26923:972
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.
§. 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.
§. 4. 3. That for this, as the meritorious Cause, God hath given him power over all Flesh, that he might give eternal Life to as many as are drawn to him by the Father, and given him, Joh. 17. 2. He is ⟨p. 257⟩Lord of all, and all power in Heaven and Earth is given him, Matth. 28. 19. and he is made Head over all things to the Church, Eph. 1. 22, 23. Rom. 14. 9: And for these his Merits, a Covenant, or Law of Grace is made to sinful Man, by which all his sins are freely pardoned, and Right to Impunity and Life is freely given him, if he will accept it, and penitently turn to God.