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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.
Cont. 12. •h•ther, obedience be a part of Faith, or we a•e justified by obedience.
Cont. 12. •h•ther, o•edience be a part of Faith, or we a•e justifi•d by obedience.
Ans. 1. To believe in Christ at first is an act of obedience to God, who commandeth us so to do: But it is but Subjection to Christ which that act includeth, that is, taking him for our Lord and Saviour to be obeyed▪ which i• virtually all future obedience as its root, but not actually.
Ans. 1. To beli•ve in Christ at first is an act of obedience to God, who commandeth us so to do: But it is but Subjecti•n to Christ which that act includeth, that is, taking him for our Lord and Saviour to be obeyed▪ which i• virtually all future obedience as its root, but not actually.
2. Actual obedience to Christ is not faith, but the fruit of faith and part of our performance of the Covenant which we made with him, and necessary to the continuance of our justification and to our Salvation, as all the Scripture fully showeth.