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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.
7.1 Whereas the Scripture •eacheth that we are justified by the grace of God intimating the inward moving cause of justification, which is the free favour of God in Christ: the Papists understand grace, or rather graces inherent in us: which yet in the Question of justification (wherein the holy ⟨p. 424⟩Ghost opposes works to grace) are not more opposed to works then their first justification is to the second.
7.1 Whereas the Scripture •eacheth that we are justified by the grace of God intimating the inward moving cause of justification, which is the free favor of God in Christ: the Papists understand grace, or rather graces inherent in us: which yet in the Question of justification (wherein the holy ⟨p. 424⟩Ghost opposes works to grace) are not more opposed to works then their first justification is to the second.
- 17. This is their verbal error: no doubt that which they mean by justification, that is, Sanctification, consisteth in Inherent grace.
18. When the Scripture teacheth that we are justified by the righteousness of God, and the blood of God i. e. of Christ who is God (for by his obedience and blood, we are justified, and he is our righteousness) I say by a righteousness which is not revealed in the Law, and therefore not inherent, but which is revealed in the Gospel without the Law. They understand a righteousness infused by God and inherent in us.