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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.
But that we are at first, constituted just, and adopted, upon the ••ndition of a consenti•• covenanting F•ith, b•f•re we h•ve time to she• it by outward Works, and that we are continue and judged, justified and entitled •• Li•e, o• condition of our Performance of the Essentials •f o• Covenant. XCIII. Th•• hold, that we are justified •• the s•me Law or C•v••••t of Innocency, which condemneth ••: Because •ay they, we have fulfilled it in, and by C••••t; falsely (as is aforesaid) supposing, that C•r•st was either such a Surety as w•• in the same Bond, disjunctively with the principal, or else that the principal (man) was allowed to do his Duty, or •ear his Suffering by another: And so they deny the Gospel-Covenant, and Gift, which is that indeed, which justifieth us by the way of Redemption, falsely supposing, that the ⟨p. 35⟩very damning Law doth justice us, by way of Prevention, as innocent, as having fulfilled it in Christ. XCIV. They suppose, that Christ will not judge and justify us, according to any Law, by which he governed us, but only by declaring his absolute De•ree and Will; giving no Reason of his Sentence, from the cause of different performance, or on performance of the Persons judged; and so that Judgment is no act of Moral Government, or of Reward, contrary to all the Scripture. XCV. They falsely suppose, that Pa of si, i no Justification, constitutive, or sentetil. Because, say they, that doth but save us from Punishment; but to be Righteous, is to be by imputation, such as have kept all the Law, and so hve never sinned. But we have no such Righteousness a they thus feign; when the Question is, whether we are sinners? We must confess it, and ot plead that we have no sin. But when the Question is, whether we are to be condemned, Pardon is or Righteousness; and having the Pardon of all sin original, habitual and actual, of omission and commission, we are in st […] pu ; and if th […] enough, to entitle u t Glory, Adoption added to it, is: And so […] Right is stid. XCVI. They […] th to hold, that Cs, Righteousness and Mei, i to make our Fi and holy Obediene, […], is a Psh Doctrine against F Grace: A if Cris had […] me to save his People from their sins, and to make them holy, and zealous of Lve and ood Works;