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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.
XVIII. They directly fight against all mens Salvation, by telling them, that they ought to do no Duty inward or outward, as a means of their Salvation, lest it be against Christ and Free Grace which saveth them. And that nothing that they do, can do them any good, nor any sin, possibly can do them any hurt, because they are already perfect, and saved only by Christ.
XVIII. They di•ectly fight against all mens Salvation, by telling them, that they ought to do no Duty inward or outward, as a means of their Salvation, lest it be against Christ and Free Grace which saveth them. And that nothing that they do, can do them any good, nor any sin, possibly can do them any hurt, because they are already perfect, and saved only by Christ.
XIX. They expose Christianity to the scorn of Infidels, by telling men, that it consisteth in that which every novice in Logic or Reasoning, knoweth to be impossible; that one mans Sins, and one mans Righteousness, should be made another's: Not only so far as that others partake of the Effects (Christ of our sins in sufferings, and we of the benefits of his Righteousness) which we all maintain; but that the thing it self, is essentially thus transferred: And so the Accidents do transire a Subjecto in Subjectum: And whereas Sin and Righteousness, are Accidents in the three predicaments of Habit (or Privation) Acts, and Relation, they feign the Habits, Acts, and Relation, of •••us deformity of all the Elect, ⟨p. 42⟩to become in themselves the Habits, Acts, and R• latins of Christ: And the Habits, Acts, and Relations of perfect Righteousness in Christ, to becom• essentially the very Habits, Acts, and Relati••s of every Person Elect.