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The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
Part 3 › Chapter 7: How to exercise Faith about Pardon of sin and Justification.
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.
Some there be (besides the Antinomians) that hold that Christ did perfectly obey and satisfy (not in the natural, but) in the civil or legal person of each sinner that is elect (representing and bearing as many distinct persons as are elect) so fully as that God doth repute every Elect person (or say others, every Believer) to be one that in Law sense, did perfectly obey and satisfy Justice himself; and so imputeth Christs Righteousness and satisfaction to us, as that which was reputatively or legally of our own performance, and so is ours, not only in its effects, but in it self.
Some there be (besides the Antinomians) that hold that Christ did perfectly obey and satisfie (not in the natural, but) in the civil or legal person of each sinner that is elect (representing and bearing as many distinct persons as are elect) so fully as that God doth repute every Elect person (or say others, every Believer) to be one that in Law sense, did perfectly obey and satisfie Justice himself; and so imputeth Christs Righteousness and satisfaction to us, as that which was reputatively or legally of our own performance, and so is ours, not only in its effects, but in it self.
Others seeing the pernicious consequences of this opinion, deny all imputed Righteousness of Christ to us, and write many reproachful volumes against it (as you may see in Thorndikes last works and Dr. Gel, and Parker against the Assembly, and abundance more.)
Others seeing the pernicious consequences of this opinion, deny all imputed Righteousness of Christ to us, and write many reproachful volumes against it (as you may see in Thorndikes last works and Dr. Gell, and Parker against the Assembly, and abundance more.)
The truth is, Christ merited and satisfied for us in the person of a Mediator: But this Mediator was the Head and Root of all Believers, and the second Adam, the fountain of spiritual life; and the Surety of the New Covenant,