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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.
Ans. Because it imposeth strictness in a multitude of laborious Tasks and Ceremonies and rigorously punisheth the breakers of it. 2. The heretical teachers had falsely separated the Law from the promise of Christs justifying righteousness and grace, which was the sense and end of the Law: And Paul proveth that without the Promise and Christ, the Law is but a carcass of fruitless works without a Soul▪ and cannot justify. 3. But yet a believing Jew being justified by faith in the promised seed, was to obey Moses Law sincerely as his material obedience to God his Redeemer; as we are now to observe the Sacraments instituted by Christ as part of our sincere obedience, necessary to Salvation.
Ans. Because it imposeth strictness in a multitude of laborious Tasks and Ceremonies and rigorously punisheth the breakers of it. 2. The heretical teachers had falsly separated the Law from the promise of Christs justifying righteousness and grace, which was the sence and end of the Law: And Paul proveth that without the Promise and Christ, the Law is but a carkass of fruitless works without a Soul▪ and cannot justify. 3. But yet a believing Jew being justified by faith in the promised seed, was to obey Moses Law sincerely as his material obedience to God his Redeemer; as we are now to observe the Sacraments instituted by Christ as part of our sincere obedience, necessary to Salvation.
Cont. 33. What i• Pauls drift in all his disputes about justification?
Cont. 33. What i• Pauls drift in all his disputes about •u•tification?