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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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Secondly, And as to Christs work, I have so largely showed you the necessity, the reasonableness and the harmonical congruities that I will not repeat them. In a word, The New Testament is the Doctrine of the eternal [Greek or Hebrew] wisdom or word of God Incarnate to communicate the Divine Spirit, and love to man, to be a sacrifice for sin, the Conqueror of Satan, Death and Sin, the Head over All things to the Church, the Author of Redemption, the grand ⟨p. 103⟩Administrator of the new Covenant, the Reconciler and Restorer of man to God, the Teacher, Ruler and High Priest of the Church, in order to this our Restoration and Salvation.
Secondly, And as to Christs work, I have so largely shewed you the necessity, the reasonableness and the harmonical congruities that I will not repeat them. In a word, The New Testament is the Doctrine of the eternal 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 wisdome or word of God Incarnate to communicate the Divine Spirit, and love to man, to be a sacrifice for sin, the Conqueror of Satan, Death and Sin, the Head over All things to the Church, the Author of Redemption, the grand ⟨p. 103⟩Administrator of the new Covenant, the Reconciler and Restorer of man to God, the Teacher, Ruler and High Preist of the Church, in order to this our Restoration and Salvation.
Thirdly, But if it be the Time of his coming that doth offend you, I have answered that, and further add. First, What is there in foolish man that should encourage him to dream, that he better knoweth the fittest season for Gods works, than God himself. Secondly, Man was not all the while before, without the Benefits of this designed and undertaken Redemption: He was still under a Covenant of Grace. Thirdly, Consider well that God did not intend to give mankind that had so heinously sinned (by preferring the Devils word before his,) a present and a perfect pardon, but only to give a new Law and Covenant which should be a conditional gift of pardon, to be obtained in full perfection, in time, and by degrees, we had made our selves voluntarily the Slaves of Satan: And God would not deliver us all at once. We had forfeited the heavenly assistance of the holy