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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 Eighteenth 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.
3. No man, save Christ, lived without all Sin: And he that sinneth doth not all his Duty, or keep all Gods Law perfectly. And he that doth not all, doth not all and more.
3. No man, save Christ, lived wirhout all Sin: And he that sinneth doth not all his Duty, or keep all Gods Law perfectly. And he that doth not all, doth not all and more.
4. There is no Moral good done by any man, which was not his Duty, and Gods Law commanded not: For Gods Law is perfect, and therefore obligeth to all Moral good: And as Sin is the Transgression of the Law, so Moral good is the conform Obedience to the Law.
5. God hath not Counsels to Moral action, which are not obliging Laws, and make not our Duty. For to keep them is Moral good, and the Law were imperfect if it obliged not to all such good. If the ⟨p. 78⟩Counsel oblige ut norma officii, it's a Law: If it oblige not, it's vain.