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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 1. If all the Elect be really many distinct Persons, t•en, either Christ must be also as many distinct Persons, or not be the same Person with them a•l, or any of them. But the Elect are many distinct Persons, and shall be so for ever: Peter was not Paul or John: They do not the same Acts: They be not guilty of the same numerical sins: Every man shall answer for all that he hath done in the Body, and not for all that all others of the Elect have done. All the Elect shall not sit on the twelve Thrones, as Apostles: All did not Preach the Gospel as Paul did, nor Persecute as Paul did: Overthrow distinct i•dividuation here or in Heaven, and how dismal will be the consequence? And here, will not each man have right to another's House, Wife, Food, Goods, if they are but one Person?
But 1. If all the Elect be really many distinct Persons, t•en, either Christ must be also as many dist•nct Persons, or not be the same Person with them a•l, or any of them. But the Elect are many distinct Persons, and shall be so for ever: Peter was not Paul or John: They do not the same Acts: They be not guilty of the same numerical sins: Every man shall answer for all that he hath done in the Body, and not for all that all others of the Elect have done. All the Elect shall not sit on the twelve Thrones, as Ap•stles: All did not Preach the Gospel as Paul did, nor Persecute as Paul did: Overthrow distinct i•dividuation here or in Heaven, and how dismal will be the consequence? And here, will not each man have right to anothers House, Wife, Food, Goods, if they are but one Person?
To be one in Spirit, is no more to be one Person, than seeing by the same Sun-light maketh all Lies to be one Eye. For the Spirit is not our personality.