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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Seventeenth accused Point.
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.
8. And seeing Christ saith, that the Children of the Resurrection are like or equal to the Angels, we have reason to believe that even now they are perfected Spirits, Heb. 12.24. And knowing that Angels are very serviceable and beneficial to the Church on Earth, we know not how far the Spirits of the just are so too.
But we have a sufficient Mediator and Advocate with the Father, whose Sacrifice, Merits, and Advocation are perfect, and need no supplement: And the Spirits of the just do praise him as saved by his Merits, ⟨p. 76⟩and never boast that they have of their own a Redundancy to save others. But we all with thankfulness confess, that God useth to bless the Houses of the Faithful; the Children for the Parents sake, and hath expressed this in the Decalogue, and by many Promises: Yea, that he would have spared Sodom, had there been but Ten Righteous persons there: And a Potiphars House, and a Prison may be blest in part for Josephs sake. And when Parents are Dead, this blessing may be on their Children, through many Generations. And God remembered Abraham, when his Posterity provoked him. David had a special promise for his Seed. None of this is denied by us.
But we have a sufficient Mediator and Advocate with the Father, whose Sacrifice, Merits, and Advocation are perfect, and need no supplement: And the Spirits of the just do praise him as saved by his Merits, ⟨p. 76⟩and never boast that they have of their own a Redundancy to save others. But we all with thankfulness confess, that God useth to bless the Houses of the Faithful; the Children for the Parents sake, and hath exprest this in the Decalogue, and by many Promises: Yea, that he would have spared Sodom, had there been but Ten Righteous persons there: And a Potiphars House, and a Prison may be blest in part for Josephs sake. And when Parents are Dead, this blessing may be on their Children, through many Generations. And God remembred Abraham, when his Posterity provoked him. David had a special promise for his Seed. None of this is denyed by us.