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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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3. But some men take a Surety here to be the same Persona civilis, quamvis non naturalis, wit• the Offender and Debtor; as if we did Legally▪ Morally or Civilly that which Christ did naturally ▪ As indeed an allowed Representative, Servant or Agent and Attorney is: If I be bound to pay an hundred pound, the Law and Bond mean• not that I must needs do it with my own hands▪ but if I send my Servant or Friend with the Money, it is Civilly, Legally and Morally done by me, because he was my lawful Instrument: I di• it by him.
3. But some men take a Surety here to be the same Persona civilis, quamvis non naturalis, wit• the Offender and Debtor; as if we did Legally▪ Morally or Civilly that which Christ did naturally ▪ As indeed an allowed Representative, Servant or Agent and Attourney is: If I be bound to pay an hundred pound, the Law and Bond mean• not that I must needs do it with my own hands▪ but if I send my Servant or Friend with the Money, it is Civilly, Legally and Morally done by me, because he was my lawfull Instrument: I di• it by him.
II. The Doctrine then, which I deny as subverting the Christian Religion is especially these three errors following.
II. The Doctrine then, which I deny as subverting the Christian Religion is especially these three errours following.