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Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted…
Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1671
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.
12. Heathens and Infidels are not left unredeemed under the remediless Curse, and Covenant of Innocency which we broke in Adam; but are all brought by the Redemption wrought by Christ, under a Law or terms of Grace. 1. God made a Covenant of Grace with all mankind in Adam, Gen. 3.15. who was by Tradition to acquaint his posterity with it, as he did to Cain and Abel the Ordinances of Oblation and Sacrifice. 2. This Covenant was renewed with all mankind in Noah. 3. This Covenant is not repealed, otherwise than by a perfecter ⟨p. 68⟩Edition to them that have the plenary Gospel. 4. The full Gospel Covenant is made for all, as to the Tenor of it, and the command of Preaching and Offering it to all. 5. They that have not this Edition may yet be under the first Edition. 6. The Jews under the first Edition were saved without believing in this determinate person of Jesus, or that he should die for sin, and rise again, and send down the spirit: For the Apostles believed it not before hand, Luk. 18.34. Joh. 12.16. Luke 9.45. Mark 9.34. Luk. 24.21, 25, 26. Act. 1.6, ⟨p. 70⟩7, 8. yet were they then in a state of saving grace as appeareth by Joh. 14. & 15. & 16. & 17. throughout. 7. The rest of the world that had not the same supernatural Revelation were not then bound to believe so much as the Jews were, about the Messiah. 8. God himself told them all, that they were not under the unremedied curse of the Covenant of Innocency, by giving them a life full of those mercies which they had forfeited, which all did tend to lead them to repentance, and to seek after God,