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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.
As is said before, To believe in God, and in Christ as Christ, and in the Promise of Salvation, and to believe the evil of sin, and the need of a Saviour, and to desire him, and be thankful for him, and pray for pardon, are not the works that Paul speaketh against, but some belong to the Essence, and some to the Integrity and Accidents of that Faith by which we are justified. Yet a foolish person may contradict himself, and hold his own Faith, as well as his Love, or Desire, or Prayer, to be meritorious, as making the reward not of grace: Such mad contradiction may suppose Faith to be the works which it denieth.
Cont. 21. Are any works of man meritorious?
Ans. Not in point of Commutative Justice, that giveth one thing for another to the commodity of each; as in buying and selling.
2. Nor yet in distributive Governing Justice as making any good due to us by the Law of Innocency or Works.