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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
A Breviate of the Doctrine of Justification. › Conclusion: [Conclusion.]
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IV. That Christ did obey and suffer, merit and satisfy, in so full and strict a representing and personating every one of the Elect, as that they did and suffered it in and by Christ, in the sense of the Law of Works, or in Gods account: and that it was not in the third person of a mediator, to communicate the Effects freely as he pleased by another Covenant. And so that Gods imputing righteousness to us, is his accounting us to have done and suffered in Law sense what Christ did. This is the root of all the rest, subverting the Gospel itself.
IV. That Christ did obey and suffer, merit and satisfy, in so full and strict a representing and personating every one of the Elect, as that they did and suffered it in and by Christ, in the sence of the Law of Works, or in Gods account: and that it was not in the third person of a mediator, to communicate the Effects freely as he pleased by another Covenant. And so that Gods imputing righteousness to us, is his accounting us to have done and suffered in Law sense what Christ did. This is the root of all the rest, subverting the Gospel itself.
V. And so that God accounteth us to be Innocent, and never to have sinned by Omission or Commission from birth to death, and to have all that is required to merit Heaven, because we did it in Christ; and also to have suffered in Christ for our sins, the curse threatened to us, and (as the last objecter saith) eternal damnation equivalently: And so we had sin and no sin: And Christ must die and we must pray, for the pardon of that sin, which in Gods account or imputation we never had.
V. And so that God accounteth us to be Innocent, and never to have sinned by Omission or Commission from birth to death, and to have all that is required to merit Heaven, because we did it in Christ; and also to have suffered in Christ for our sins, the curse threatned to us, and (as the last objecter saith) eternal damnation equivalently: And so we had sin and no sin: And Christ must die and we must pray, for the pardon of that sin, which in Gods account or imputation we never had.