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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
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3. To the Tenor or Mode of the Promising and penal part of the L•w of Christ; which giveth pardon and Life on Condition of penitent believing acceptance and […] ; and continueth it on Condition also of sincere obedience to Christ our Redeemer, and God in him: and so we shall be judged, and either justified or damned, as we have or have not this personal Righteousness: Christ in Judgment is not to try his own part, but ours: He that is not thus justified shall be damned.
3. To the Tenor or Mode of the Promising and penal part of the L•w of Christ; which giveth pardon and Life on Condition of penitent believing acceptance and 〈…〉 ; and continueth it on Condition also of sinc•re obedience to Christ our Redeemer, and God in him: and so we shall be judged, and either justified or damned, as we have or have not this personal Righteousness: Christ in Judgment is not to try his own part, but ours: He that is not thus justified shall be damned.
And as to the Libertine or Antinomian error (that this performing of the Condition of the Promise is no righteousness, but only Christs imputed is Righteousness, because it answereth not the perfect Precept, though it answer the imposed Condition of the Promise, and that it is not to be called Righteousness, nor we so far as is aforesaid to be justified by it; I appeal to Scripture and the reason of the thing.
And as to the Libertine or Antinomian errour (that this performing of the Condition of the Promise is no righteousness, but only Christs imputed is Righteousness, because it answereth not the perfect Precept, though it answer the imposed Condition of the Promise, and that it is not to be called Righteousness, nor we so far as is aforesaid to be justified by it; I appeal to Scripture and the reason of the thing.