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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.
Besides that, one that is reputed to have Legally fulfilled the Law, must be unjustly corrected by the punishment of temporal afflictions or death, or loss of the Spirit and Grace, and hath present right to the reward of that Covenant, or deliverance from all penal evil at least; so that this Doctrine of strict Legal personating Representation, overthroweth the New Covenant and Law of Christ, and all his Kingdom of Grace, and all Religion.
III. The third fundamental Error which we deny and oppose, is, that the Union between Christ and (the Elect, say some, or) Believers (say others) is so near, as that his very personal Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings, are in Law sense truly our Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings as the accidents of our persons: As if Christ and Adam, and every Christian, were one and the same subject of Holiness, Righteousness, Suffering, Merit or Satisfaction. Yet they dare not say that the Union (like the hypostatical) warranteth such a community of Properties or Attributes, as that we may be said to be Divinely Righteous, perfectly Holy, never to have sinned, to have satisfied for our selves, to have merited our own Salvation, and many such like; as seeing the evil of the consequents, though not of the premises.
III. The third fundamental Errour which we deny and oppose, is, that the Ʋnion between Christ and (the Elect, say some, or) Believers (say others) is so near, as that his very personal Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings, are in Law sense truly our Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings as the accidents of our persons: As if Christ and Adam, and every Christian, were one and the same subject of Holiness, Righteousness, Suffering, Merit or Satisfaction. Yet they dare not say that the Union (like the hypostatical) warranteth such a community of Properties or Attributes, as that we may be said to be Divinely Righteous, perfectly Holy, never to have sinned, to have satisfied for our selves, to have merited our own Salvation, and many such like; as seeing the evil of the consequents, though not of the premises.