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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
Sometimes the same thing is a moral cause and a Condition of the Event. And sometimes it is a mere Condition and but sine qu• non, and no proper cause; usually in Moral Conditions there is something in the Nature of the matter for the sake of which the Donor or Lawgiver maketh it necessary; which is its aptitude as a means to some of his ends.
Sometimes the same thing is a moral cause and a Condition of the Event. And sometimes it is a meer Condition and but sine qu• non, and no proper cause; usually in Moral Conditions there is something in the Nature of the matter for the sake of which the Donor or Lawgiver maketh it necessary; which is its aptitude as a means to some of his ends.
If Faith had no more fitness to be the condition of Justification than Unbelief or hating God, and if Godliness or Holiness had no more fitness to be the Condition of our Salvation than wickedness, they would not have been deputed to this place, Office and Honour.
If Faith had no more fitness to be the condition of Justification than Ʋnbelief or hating God, and if Godliness or Holiness had no more fitness to be the Condition of our Salvation than wickedness, they would not have been deputed to this place, Office and Honour.
Faith is no Condition of Gods making the promise (He absolutely made some Conditional promises, and others only on conditions performed by Christ.) But it is the condition of our right to or possession of the thing promised; or of the event.
Faith is no Condition of Gods making the promise (He abso•utely made some Conditional promises, and others only on conditions performed by Christ.) But it is the condition of our right to or possession of the thing promised; or of the event.