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More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
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Answ. First, It is strange that men should be left Remediless, if Christ, and not only their Repentance be the Remedy? Surely if Christ had given sinners nothing, yet he hath taken nothing from them.
Answ. First, It is strange that men should be left Remediless, if Christ, and not onely their Repentance be the Remedy? Surely if Christ had given sinners nothing, yet he hath taken nothing from them.
Secondly, We all confess the universal necessity of Repentance? But this is partly coordinate (as the end) and partly subordinate (as an effect) and therefore not contrary to the necessity of a Redeemer? Repentance is our conversion, and our begun Recovery from sin: And will it follow that the Physician ⟨p. 83⟩is unnecessary because health and recovery are necessary? Yea, and sufficient in their kind?
Thirdly, How doth it follow that the Remedy was not Universal, when Redemption by Christ was universal? Christ so far died for all men, as by his death he procured them any Grace. But he procured Grace (though not equal Grace) for all: You confess an universal Grace, and yet an inequality of benefits: we say, that Grace was procured by Christ: Do we narrow it at all, by saying, Christ procured it?
Thirdly, How doth it follow that the Remedy was not Universal, when Redemption by Christ was universal? Christ so far died for all men, as by his death he procured them any Grace. But he procured Grace (though not equal Grace) for all: You confess an universal Grace, and yet an inequallity of benefits: we say, that Grace was procured by Christ: Do we narrow it at all, by saying, Christ procured it?