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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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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, 2 Cor. 5.19, 20.
2. Faln 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, 2 Cor. 5.19, 20.
3. Christs Righteousness was thus accepted of God as soon as performed: but it was not then as so performed imputed to any singular Person, to his personal actual Justification. For it was accepted before we were born, or believed: But it▪ was not so imputed to our actual Justification before we were born or believed.
Righteousness is imputed to us, if we believe, Rom. 4.24. And Faith is imputed to us for Righteousness: And he that believeth not is condemned already, and under the curse, when yet Christs Righteousness was accepted long before: If they say that there is a new Acceptation of it for every Sinner just when he believeth, and that it is this that they mean; I answer, that as long as men take liberty to make new phrases about supernatural mysteries, which are not in Scripture, and to use these to the forming of new Creeds or Articles of Faith, they will be so long in acquainting the World with their meaning, that we shall never come to an end of Controversies, nor to the true understanding of one another: for fewsuch men understand themselves; but when they confound the matter and the readers with their new ambiguous phrases, they cry out against those that would search out their meaning, as if they did but Cavil with their Words, and distinction and understanding were the way of Confusion and not theirs.