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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.
2. That which made Christs Sacrifice to be equivalent to our endless damnation, was not that it wa• as •••at a proportion of suffering (poenae sensus & […]) •s all ours together would have been: ⟨p. 67⟩But because the dignity and perfection of the person made it an apt means for God that would pardon us, to accept as a Sacrifice, and so as sit a means to the ends of Government, as our damnation would have been (and sitter.) This is the aequivalency.
2. That which made Christs Sacrifice to be aequival•nt to our endless damnation, was not that it wa• as •••at a proportion of suffering (poenae sensus & 〈…〉) •s all ours •ogether would have been: ⟨p. 67⟩But because the dignity and perfection of the person made it an apt means for God that would pardon us, to accept as a Sacrifice, and so as sit a means to the ends of Government, as our damnation would have been (and sitter.) This is the aequivalency.
3. We suffered not damnation at all in Christ; nor doth God or his Law take or reckon us to have done so; but only to receive the pardon and other benefits freely given us, which he in the person of a Mediator, and not in our person merited.