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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.
Obj. But it is the Object, and not the Act; Christs Righteousness and not our Faith; the Gold and not the Hand that taketh it, that is our Riches and Righteousness.
Ans. 1. No question but the Faith that we talk of, is Faith in Christ, even the Believing Receiving of a Saviour and his Grace freely given us. And therefore Christs Righteousness is ever connoted when we talk of Faith: For what is the very Specification of the Act but the Object? But it is not the essence of Christ or his Righteousness, that constituteth Faith; but Christ in esse co•nito & objectivo, even as it is not the essence of Sin that constituteth Repentance, but the notion of Sin in esse cognito as an Object. And there is no doubt but Christ is the Souls Riches which Faith receiveth. But if the King by Law should restore all the Rebels in Ireland to their Estates, and give them their Lives, that lay down Arms, and ask Mercy and accept it, if it come to the Trial whether they are Accepters or Refusers, their Acceptance must be so far their justifying Righteousness, though their Lives and Estates be their Treasure, ⟨p. 35⟩and the Kings Act be their Title to it.
Ans. 1. No question but the Faith that we talk of, is Faith in Christ, even the Believing Receiving of a Saviour and his Grace freely given us. And therefore Christs Righteousness is ever connoted when we talk of Faith: For what is the very Specification of the Act but the Object? But it is not the essence of Christ or his Righteousness, that constituteth Faith; but Christ in esse co•nito & objectivo, even as it is not the essence of Sin that constituteth Repentance, but the notion of Sin in esse cognito as an O•ject. And there is no doubt but Christ is the Souls Riches which Faith receiveth. But if the King by Law should restore all the Rebels in Ireland to their Estates, and give them their Lives, that lay down Arms, and ask Mercy and accept it, if it come to the Tryal whether they are Accepters or Refusers, their Acceptance must be so far their justifying Righteousness, though their Lives and Estates be their Treasure,