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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
To the reader: TO THE READER. A POSTSCRIPT to the Second Book.
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.
But I see the corrupting Design is of late, grown so high, that what seemed these Thirty Four Years suppressed, now threateneth as a torrent to overthrow the Gospel, and Christian Faith, and to deny the true Office of Christ as Mediator and his Grace and Righteousness, by seeming ignorantly to extol them▪ And Satan designeth to make us a common scorn to Papists and Malignants, by the palpable grossness of such mens undeniable Errors. And therefore I dare neither give them my Name, nor be silent in such a common scandal and danger, while I can speak and write.
But I see the corrupting Design is of late, grown so high, that what seemed these Thirty Four Years suppressed, now threatn•th as a torrent to overthrow the Gospel, and Christian Faith, and to deny the tru• Office of Christ as Mediator and his Grace and Righteousness, by seeming ignorantly to extol them▪ And Satan designeth to make us a common scorn to Papists and Malignants, by the palpable grosnes• of such mens undeniable Errours. And therefore I dare neither give them my Name, nor be silent in such a common scandal and danger, while I can speak and write.
It offendeth me that I must but briefly name their errors, instead of a large confutation of them, while the whole Scripture is against them; but I have done it oft largely, which they will not answer. And the Booksellers will Print no Books that are large and insensible of our danger, think th•y are but few that need it.
It offendeth me that I must but briefly name their errours, instead of a large confutation of them, while the whole Scripture is against them; but I have done it oft largely, which they will not answer. And the Booksellers will Print no Books that are large and insensible of our danger, think th•y are but few that need it.