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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.
But he could not be said no not in so large a sense as this, to have obeyed in our stead (considering it as obedience or holiness, but only as merit) because he did it not that we might not obey, but that we might not suffer for disobeying.
More of this will follow in the next Chapter.
Direct. 4. Understand well what guilt it is that Christ doth remit in our Justification; not the guilt of the fact, nor of the fault in it self, but the guilt of punishment; and of the fault only so far as it is the cause of wrath and punishment.
Direct. 4. Ʋnderstand well what guilt it is that Christ doth remit in our Justification; not the guilt of the fact, nor of the fault in it self, but the guilt of punishment; and of the fault only so far as it is the cause of wrath and punishment.
1. The guilt of fact, is in the reality or truth of this charge, that such a fact we did or omitted: so far it is but Physically considered, and would not come into legal consideration, were it not for the following relation of it.