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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.
6. Righteousness particular is either in some small matter that we are not made happy by. 2. Or in some great cause which our happiness dependeth on.
7. The first Law required personal perfect constant obedience on pain of death; and so justifieth none without it.
8. Adam was the Father of all mankind, from whom they spring, but he did not so represent the Persons of all that were to spring of him, as if his obedience without their own would have justified any of them at age. If Adam had not sinned, Cain should have been condemned if he sinned; and so others.
9. The first Law being broken, man was made uncapable of either part of Justification by it; either as one that sinned not, or as one that was not by it to be condemned. And so it was no more to him a Promise or Covenant of Life; the Condition being now become impossible, and so no condition; and the threatening becoming as a Sentence.