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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.
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.
One error the Preface addeth to the hundred▪ which were it a truth, would carry the cause for them, and bring me to a recantation, viz. That Christ and the Elect are one and the same Person. It is not a Relative personality that is the question; for so Christ himself had many Persons, as one and the same man may have the Person of a Father, of a Husband, of a Master, of a King, &c. But it is Physical or Substantial Personality, which Mr. Crispe saith, is more than natural, we being one Spirit, and Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh▪ And if this be so, I shall grant that we are as righteous as Christ, and Christ now in Heaven (and ⟨image 76⟩n•t on the Cross only) is guilty of all our sins, and was indeed as they call him, the greatest blasphemer, hater of God, adulterer, &c. in the World.
One errour the Preface addeth to the hundred▪ which were it a truth, would carry the cause for them, and bring me to a recantation, viz. That Christ and the Elect are one and the same Person. It is not a Relative personality that is the question; for so Christ himself had many Persons, as one and the same man may have the Person of a Father, of a Husband, of a Master, of a King, &c. But it is Physical or Substantial Personality, which Mr. Crispe saith, is more than natural, we being one Spirit, and Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh And if this be so, I shall grant that we are as righteous as Christ, and Christ now in Heaven (and