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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. 33. What i• Pauls drift in all his disputes about justification?
Cont. 33. What i• Pauls drift in all his disputes about •u•tification?
Ans. 1. Primarily, to prove the necessity of a Saviours Sacrifice, Righteousness and Intercession to save and justify us, and that the doing of Moses Law, how excellent soever esteemed by the Jews, would not justify without him. 2. To prove that the Gentiles may be saved by faith without the Law, as w•ll as the Jews by •aith with it: And that it bindeth not the Gentiles, and is a•rogate to the Jews, and that the Law of Christ succeedeth it. He confuteth their trusting to the keeping of their Law instead of Christs Righteousness, and the promise of Grace and their obtruding their Law upon the Gentiles as necessary to Salvation.
Ans. 1. Primarily, to prove the necessity of a Saviours Sacrifice, Righteousness and Intercession to save and justify us, and that the doing of Moses Law, how excellent soever esteemed by the Jews, would not justify without him. 2. To prove that the Gentiles may be saved by faith without the Law, as w•ll as the Jews by •aith with it: And that it bindeth not the Gentiles, and is a•rogate to the Jews, and that the Law of Christ succeedeth it. He confuteth their trusting to the keeping of their Law instead of Christs Righteousness, and the promise of Grace and their ob•ruding their Law upon the Gentiles as necessary to Salvation.