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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 Three and Thirtieth 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.
Ans. This is before answered to the 17th. Accusation. I told you that we hold, that God blesseth Children for their Holy Parents sakes, their Relation making the welfare of the one to be the others: And God blessed others for Josephs sake, and sometimes preserveth whole Countries for the sake of the Godly there: And on what account, and how far, I will not again repeat.
And the Union and Communion of Saints in Heaven and Earth are so near, that I dare not say that God doth any good to any one faithful Soul, that is not in some respect for the sake of all the rest; as the Cure of an aching Tooth is for the sake of all the Body: That is, 1. For the good of the whole. 2. And done out of love to the whole.
And the Union and Communion of Saints in Heaven and Earth are so near, that I dare not say that God doth any good to any one faithful Soul, that is not in some respect for the sake of all the rest; as the Cure of an aking Tooth is for the sake of all the Body: That is, 1. For the good of the whole. 2. And done out of love to the whole.
But this will not satisfy confounding Deceivers. No doubt it is dead Saints that ⟨p. 119⟩he meaneth: And what he meaneth by Merits, I suppose he knoweth not himself; or else he would have told us: How far we own, or abhor the pretence of Merits, I showed before. All Saints are saved by the full sufficient Merits of Christ, and have none at all of their own, unless the amiableness of Grace freely given them be called their Merits, as a thankful Child more deserveth his Fathers Love, (that is, is more Lovely) than a Rebel that scorneth him; and a piece of Gold deserveth to be esteemed above Dirt; and a Nightingale above a Toad. Yea their own Jesuit Vasquez, not only denieth all Merit of God in Commutative Justice, (as all save Romans and a few such Sots do,) but also in point of distributive Justice, by which he seemeth to deny Merit more than Protestants do. For by Merit we mean but Moral aptitude, for the reward of a free Benefactor who is also Rector, when the ordering of a free Gift suspended on official Conditions, is sapientially made a means of procuring Obedience.