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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.
1. If it would hold, it would exclude Faith as well as Repentance, from being a Condition or Antecedent to Justification, contrary to the Gospel: For Faith is as much a grace of the Spirit as Repentance is. And it is not true that impenitent Infidels are justified, though they may be predestinate to be first called, and then justified, and then glorified, Rom. 8.30.
2. That which goeth before Pardon (and that as a Condition) goeth before Justification: But Repentance goeth before Pardon, Acts 5.31. Luke 24.47. & 3.3. Acts 2.38. & 3.19. & 8.22. 1 John 1.9. Mark 4.12. But of this I have given large proof elsewhere.
3. All the grace of the Spirit is a preparation for Heaven: But that eminent gift of the Spirit, which in Scripture is called the Seal, Earnest, and first Fruit, is promised upon repenting and believing, and therefore followeth them, and is, 1. The Habit of Divine Love, which is the New Nature, and more than the first seed of grace: 2. And the Spirit related to us as an in-dwelling, possessing Agent of Christ to sanctify us to the end. 3. And in those times to many, the extraordinary gifts of Miracles, Tongues, &c.