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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Secondly, And if it be the terms of life that do offend you. First, It is either the terms of satisfying the Justice of God. Secondly, Or the terms of conveying the benefits to man.
First, For the first, there is nothing in it, to give offence. For we dream not of any extrinsical agent or action (much less that which was not existent till 4000 years after) having any proper casuality to change Gods mind or will; The sum of the Christian Doctrine about the Interposition and Redemption by the Son, for man upon his fall, is but this; As if God should say I will not destroy or damn sinful man remedilessly, according to the strict terms of the Law of Innocency which he hath broken; but will give him a remedying Covenant of Grace; because I will in ⟨p. 99⟩the fullness of Time, provide better for the glorifying of my Truth and Holiness, wisdom and goodness, justice and mercy, than the remediless destruction of mankind would do; even by the Incarnation, doctrine, sacrifice, merits, &c. of the eternal word.] So that this grand work of God is the cause of his subordinate works: but not the cause of any real (but only relative or denominative) mutation in himself. This all sound Christians are agreed in; And can this offend you?
First, For the first, there is nothing in it, to give offence. For we dream not of any extrinsecal agent or action (much less that which was not existent till 4000 years after) having any proper casuality to change Gods mind or will; The sum of the Christian Doctrine about the Interposition and Redemption by the Son, for man upon his fall, is but this; As if God should say I will not destroy or damn sinful man remedilesly, according to the strict termes of the Law of Innocency which he hath broken; but will give him a remedying Covenant of Grace; because I will in ⟨p. 99⟩the fulness of Time, provide better for the glorifying of my Truth and Holiness, wisdome and goodness, justice and mercy, than the remediless destruction of mankind would do; even by the Incarnation, doctrine, sacrifice, merits, &c. of the eternal word.] So that this grand work of God is the cause of his subordinate works: but not the cause of any real (but only relative or denominative) mutation in himself. This all sound Christians are agreed in; And can this offend you?