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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. Language is so ambiguous, and some men do so (unskilfully) abuse it to vain Controversy, as if they had been hired to serve the design of our late Bruitists, who make Reason and Speech to be our Misery, proving man more unhappy than the beasts. 1. Either you mean [the Imputation of it to Christ,] or [to us.] 2. And that either to fallen man in general, or to this or that individual Person in particular.
Ans. Language is so ambiguous, and some men do so (unskilfully) abuse it to vain Controversie, as if they had been hired to serve the design of our late Bruitists, who make Reason and Speech to be our Misery, proving man more unhappy than the beasts. 1. Either you mean [the Imputation of it to Christ,] or [to us.] 2. And that either to faln man in general, or to this or that individual Person in particular.
1. To Accept and to Impute are not Words of the same sense. But when Christ had performed all that he had undertaken, as the Condition of his Mediatorial Covenant, or the Law of Mediation imposed on him, it was at once both accepted to the ends of that Covenant and his performance, and also imputed to him, that is, He was truly reckoned to have fulfilled all Righteousness.
1. To Accept and to Impute are not Words of the same sence. But when Christ had performed all that he had undertaken, as the Condition of his Mediatorial Covenant, or the Law of Mediation imposed on him, it was at once both accepted to the ends of that Covenant and his performance, and also imputed to him, that is, He was truly reckoned to have fulfilled all Righteousness.
2. Fallen man was then reckoned to be (as to price and merit; Redeemed, God so far pardoning them, or not imputing their sin to them, as to make them a general Pardon on Condition of a believing ue acceptance, & committing to his Ministers the Word of Reconciliation, beseeching them in Christs stead to be personally and actually reconciled to God,