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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
Appendix › Section 13: § 13. Of Sanctification and good Works.
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.
6. And that good works are not only such as are commanded by God: but such as are voluntarily undertaken by men with a good intention.
6. And that good works are not onely such as are commanded by God: but such as are voluntarily undertaken by men with a good intention.
7.1 That the good works of the righteous not only justify, ⟨p. 430⟩but also by way of condignity deserve eternal life, both for the Covenants sake and also the works themselves.
7.1 That the good works of the righteous not onely justifie, ⟨p. 430⟩but also by way of condignity deserve eternal life, both for the Covenants sake and also the works themselves.
- 17. The Scotists and many more of them deny this: but so do not Bellarmine and many others.
18. And that that is merit of condignity by which a man endued with grace and the holy Spirit after he hath deserved the habit of love by former merit doth by his good works and their condignity deserve eternal life.