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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
Repl. It is in more then one thing I perceive that we differ. But this is a truth that you must not so easily take out of our hands. Though having had occasion to speak largely of it elsewhere, I shall say but little now.
First, Again, I know no Commandment that is not moral. But if you mean by Moral the Commandment either merely as delivered by Moses, or as written in Nature; I am not of your mind, nor ever shall be. To be void of the belief of these Articles of the faith [that this Jesus is the Christ, that he was actually conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried: Rose again the third day, ascended into Heaven; sitteth in our nature at the right hand of God; gave the Holy Ghost to his Apostles to confirm the Doctrine of the Gospel] with many more; doth condemn further then as it is a breach either of the Mosaical or Natural Law: yea in some respects as it is no breach of those Laws.
First, Again, I know no Commandment that is not moral. But if you mean by Moral the Commandment either meerly as delivered by Moses, or as written in Nature; I am not of your mind, nor ever shall be. To be void of the belief of these Articles of the faith [that this Jesus is the Christ, that he was actually conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried: Rose again the third day, ascended into Heaven; sitteth in our nature at the right hand of God; gave the Holy Ghost to his Apostles to confirm the Doctrine of the Gospel] with many more; doth condemn further then as it is a breach either of the Mosaical or Natural Law: yea in some respects as it is no breach of those Laws.
And yet the same sin materially may be a breach of several Laws; and condemned by several.