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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
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3. He saith [The Grecians defend the necessity of Baptism to salvation, and that Original sin is remitted thereby] Repl. And the Protestants hold it necessary necessitate praecepti, and as an ordinary means where it can be had: And neither the Greeks nor all your own dare damn all Infants that dye before Baptism, when it could not be had; but you say that the Votum may serve turn. And also Protestants hold that if the Infants be within the Covenant, as it pardoneth their Original sin primarily, so Baptism pardoneth it by way of obsignation and solemn conveyance: But what is all this to your error that Original sin is not only remitted, but quite extinct or done away out of our natures by Baptism; so that the new baptized Infant, is perfectly without any Radical sin, as well as without the Guilt of it?
3. He saith [The Grecians defend the necessity of Baptisme to salvation, and that Original sin is remitted thereby] Repl. And the Protestants hold it necessary necessitate praecepti, and as an ordinary means where it can be had: And neither the Greeks nor all your own dare damne all Infants that dye before Baptisme, when it could not be had; but you say that the Votum may serve turne. And also Protestants hold that if the Infants be within the Covenant, as it pardoneth their Original sin primarily, so Baptisme pardoneth it by way of obsignation and solemne conveyance: But what is all this to your error that Original sin is not onely remitted, but quite extinct or done away out of our natures by Baptisme; so that the new baptized Infant, is perfectly without any Radical sin, as well as without the Guilt of it?
4. He saith [They say that works do justify with faith: You not] Repl. They say that we are not justified by the Merit of Works, but by the alone Merit of Christ; and so do we. We deny not in every ⟨p. 61⟩sense that [we are Justified by Works, and not by faith only] for in James his sense we maintain it; else we should deny the Scripture: The question is not therefore absolutely, whether we are Justified by Works? but, In what sense we are, and in what not? We say that Christ is the only Satisfier of Gods Justice and Meriter of Righteousness; and that Faith is the only Receiving Condition; and that the Works of the Law that Paul excludeth have no hand in it; and that the Works of Grace which James takes in, are but conditions without which our Justification (begun without them) shall not be continued, and of our final Absolution or Justification in Judgement; and so are but a Particular, and not an Universal or Legal Righteousness. (Of which I have given a full account in my Confession.)