A27015:1164
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
13. They will have remission of sin to be a blotting of them out, by which not only ⟨p. 423⟩the guilt but also the irregularity it self is abolished.
- 13. The term Remission also they abuse, meaning by it, the change of our qualities, or putting away sin it self, though forgiveness they take in with it. And so they make many verbal controversies.
4. As in warming,1 the cold is expelled by the coming of the heat: so in justification sin is abolished by the infusion of righteousness.
- 14. This is true of Sanctification, which is the thing they mean by Justification: But by this abuse of the terms, they misinterpret Scripture. And also they so much hide the very being of pardon by perverting the words that signify it, that its hard to find in some of them, whether they confess any such thing as pardon.4. This is true of Sanctification, which is the thing they mean by Justification: But by this abuse of the terms, they misinterpret Scripture. And also they so much hide the very being of pardon by perverting the words that signifie it, that its hard to find in some of them, whether they confess any such thing as pardon.