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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 2 › Chapter 3: Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and First, What it is.
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.
§. 17. These Commandments being first delivered to the Jews, are continued by Christ, as the sum of the Law of Nature; only instead of Deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, he hath made our Redemption from sin and Satan, which was thereby typified, to be the fundamental motive; And he hath removed the memorial of the Creation-Rest, from the seventh day-Sabbath, to be kept on the Lords day, which is the first, with the Commemoration of his Resurrection, and our Redemption, in the solemn Worship of his holy Assemblies.
§. 17. These Commandements being first delivered to the Jews, are continued by Christ, as the summ of the Law of Nature; only instead of Deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, he hath made our Redemption from sin and Satan, which was thereby typified, to be the fundamental motive; And he hath removed the memorial of the Creation-Rest, from the seventh day-Sabbath, to be kept on the Lords day, which is the first, with the Commemoration of his Resurrection, and our Redemption, in the solemn Worship of his holy Assemblies.
§. 18. III. The briefest Summary of the Christian Religion,1 containing the Essentials only, is in the Sacramental Covenant of Grace: Wherein the Penitent Believer, renouncing the Flesh, the World and the Devil, doth solemnly give up himself to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as his only God, his Father, his Saviour and his Sanctifier, engaging himself hereby to a Holy life (of Resignation, Obedience and Love); and receiving the pardon of all his sins, and title to the further helps of grace, to the favour of God, and everlasting life: This Covenant is first entered by the Sacrament of Baptism, and after renewed in our communion with the Church, in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ.
§. 18. III. The briefest Summary of the Christian Religion,1 containing the Essentials only, is in the Sacramental Covenant of Grace: Wherein the Penitent Believer, renouncing the Flesh, the World and the Devil, doth solemnly give up himself to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, as his only God, his Father, his Saviour and his Sanctifier, engaging himself hereby to a Holy life (of Resignation, Obedience and Love); and receiving the pardon of all his sins, and title to the further helps of grace, to the favour of God, and everlasting life: This Covenant is first entered by the Sacrament of Baptisme, and after renewed in our communion with the Church, in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ.