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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.
§. 21. In the conclusion you do no more peaceably than provedly pronounce us in a manner agreed, enumerating the particulars in which we consent: But I have told you wherein we are not agreed in words, nor in sense, if those words be not mis-used, whatever we are in latent sense.
I still grant that Christ suffered, yea and obeyed, in some sort, in our stead, though not in our person, Civil, or Legal, so as that we are Legally reputed the doers of it by or in him: And that his assuming our Nature, and being the second Adam, a voluntary Sponsor and Mediator, was a necessary reason of the application of the fruits to us; and that we are as certainly and happily justified and glorified, as if we had been the doers and satisfiers our selves (so many as are saved;) But not on the same reasons, nor in the same method or manner of conveyance: Nor when in judgment we are accused as having sinned and deserved death, can we deny it, & plead that we were innocent by another, or by imputation, as we should have been, had we been innocent our selves: But we must plead pardon, and a free gift of life, through the merits, satisfaction and intercession of a Saviour.
§ 21. And to all before said, I may add, That they who account all the Laws obligations on each person to be fulfilled by Christ, (and not only satisfaction given for our not fulfilling them, 1. Must suppose that one person of Christ to have been Legally as many persons as he died for (or justifieth:) For the Law laid as many distinct obligations on them, as they were persons, and laid them only on their persons. It said, Thou Adam, Thou Eve, shalt personally obey perfectly, or die: And the Law of Nature, and of Moses said in sense, Thou Solomon, Thou Manasseh, (and so of all others) shalt do all things commanded, and not sin. Now that in all Christs Obedience he was Legally and imputatively so many several persons, Adam, Eve, Solomon, Manasseh, and so that none of these broke Gods Law, I find ⟨p. 113⟩