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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. It's enough that the Law of Innocency as a Covenant was before ceased, cessante capacitate subditorum: When all men had 2000 years been Originally and Actually sinners, will you feign God with all that solemnity to make such a Law as this, [I know and you must know that no Son of Adam is Innocent: And I make now a Law that if you •re, and will continue innocent you shall live: Else you shall die? This is too gross to be feigned of God.
2. It is enough that when the Law was made they were all under actual mercy which was the grace of the new pardoned Covenant.
3. Yea that the Covenant of Grace had so long before been made with all fallen mankind in Adam •nd Noah, and renewed to Abraham with special promises: And doth God now repeal or hide it.
3. Yea that the Covenant of Grace had so long before been made with all fallen mankind in Adam •nd Noah, and renewed to Abraham with spe•ial promises: And doth God now repeal or hide it.