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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. 31. What Law is it that Paul calleth the law of works, and laboriously proveth that its works do not justify us.
Cont. 31. What Law is it that Paul callet• the law of works, and labor•ously proveth that its works do not justify us.
Ans. It is the Mosaical Jewish Law, as is all along evident; and not the Law of Innocency, as made to Adam; though consequently à fortiore, it's certain that we have no works by which that will justify us (either personal or imputed.) The words [He that doth them shall live in them] do not mean, He that is no sinner, according to the Law of perfection: For 1. All men were sinners before, and so this Law should have been only a condemnation in the form of a promise. 2. And this Law prescribeth Sacrifices and Prayers for pardon of sin; which the first Law of Innocency knew not.
Cont. 32. How and why then is this called a Law of works? Which justify no man?