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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. SIR, Your notes have so much Judgment and moderation and so little, if any thing contrary to what I assert, that they require nothing from me, but a repeated explication of that which you observed not as before explained: But when it is enough for me to explain my own Words and Doctrine, you put me on another task to seek after the explication of another mans; which I am not obliged to on any account, but for your Satisfaction. It is enough for me to speak true Doctrine in the most intelligible manner that I can without examining whether other mens expressions be sound or apt.
§. 2. I begin with your own Notes: And 1. I hope that few are so ignorant (that meddle in these matters) as to doubt of what you say, that no one term much less one Metaphor or similitude can adequately express any of the Mysteries of Grace, and no one Metaphor must be carried too far; Omne simile est etiam dissimile: And all set together so far as they are thereto intended must instruct us.
§. 3. I know none but the Socinians that think a Mediator and a Sponsor inconsistent; or deny Christ to be a Sponsor. And methinks your words ⟨p. 76⟩for their consistency, import a greater difference between them than there is. It is part of Christs Mediation to be a Sponsor: These terms therefore express no difference but between the whole and the part.