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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.
And if it be a Miracle, and as great a one as Christ's Resurrection, How can any believer doubt at all? Why was Christ's Resurrection Preached by the Apostles, so much as the Proof of the Truth of Christianity, and not the Faith of every believer? Then we need not go far to prove the Christian V••ity: Every poor Boy or Woman that believeth, hath the fullest Proof, and as great and miraculous as Christ's Resurrection, Why send we not Infidels and Doubters to this Miracle, which is about them in all ages in thousands: Over-doing is undoing.
And yet no doubt, the Author saith truly, that Faith in Christ is so hard a Work, that he that never found it hard, hath none (or hath it but in the seed, ⟨p. 64⟩and yet unrooted, or untried. But alas! Infidels find it too hard to them.
And yet no doubt, the Author saith truly, that Faith in Christ is so hard a Work, that he that never found it hard, hath none (or hath it but in the seed, ⟨p. 64⟩and yet unrooted, or untryed. But alas! Infidels find it too hard to them.
To conclude, Instead of the larger part of the Proof or Confutations which I intended; 1. I shall with this, Annex a brief Treatise, resolving a multitude of Controversies about Justification, which I have laid by, about Fifteen Years.