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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.
Do you mean that guilt resulteth from Gods part of the Covenant, or from Adams, or from his Posterities? Not from ours, for we existed not, and made no such Covenant. Not from Adams part (antecedent to Natural Derivation.) For 1. No man can prove that ever Adam made such a Covenant. 2. Or that God gave him any such power, (much less Command) to bring sin and death on his Posterity by his Consent, or Will, or Contract, further than by the Law of Nature they must derive it from him if he sinned. 3. Not by Gods Covenant act: For, 1. No such Covenant of God can be shown, that made men sinners further than Natural Derivation did. 2. Else God should be the Author of sin, even of all mens Original sin, if his Arbitrary Covenant made them sinners, where nature did not.
Do you mean that guilt resulteth from Gods part of the Covenant, or from Adams, or from his Posterities? Not from ours, for we exis•ed not, and made no such Covenant. Not from Adams part (antecedent to Natural Derivation.) For 1. No man can prove that ever Adam made such a Covenant. 2. Or that God gave him any such power, (much less Command) to bring sin and death on his Posterity by his Consent, or Will, or Contract, further than by the Law of Nature they must derive it from him if he sinned. 3. Not by Gods Covenant act: For, 1. No such Covenant of God can be shewn, that made men sinners further than Natural Derivation did. 2. Else God should be the Author of sin, even of all mens Original sin, if his Arbitrary Covenant made them sinners, where nature did not.
Nay more, it is not mere Natural Relation, much less such Covenant Relation that doth it, (for Relation doth not so operate of itself) but it is that Generation which causeth Fundamentally ⟨p. 104⟩at once both the Relation of Sons and the adherent guilt.
Nay more, it is not meer Natural Relation, much less such Covenant Relation that doth it, (for Relation doth not so operate of itself) but it is that Generation which causeth Fundamentally