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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.
11. But the blessed Lawgiver our Creator would not so lose his Creature, but the eternal word presently interposing, undertook mans Redemption, and God gave man a new Law of Life, or a Covenant of Grace▪ promising him a Mediator in the fullness of time, and giving him freely for his sake both pardon of his sin, and right to Life, on the Terms of Grace therein prescribed: and commanding him future obedience, especially in the reception of his Grace, and use of the means of Grace appointed him.
12. This Law of Grace was made to Adam the lapsed head of all mankind, and so to all mankind in him: And it was renewed to Noah in the same capacity: so that all fallen mankind was put under this Law of Grace in that first Edition of it, made to Adam, and Noah. And were neither left lawless, nor utterly desperate as under the mere damning violated Law, which now no more offered ⟨p. 3⟩Life to any, the condition being become of natural impossibility: God is not to be supposed to say now to sinners, If you be not Sinners you shall li•• ; when it's known that they are.
12. This Law of Grace was made to Adam the lapsed head of all mankind, and so to all mankind in him: And it was renewed to Noah in the same capacity: so that all fallen mankind was put under this Law of Grace in that first Edition of it, made to Adam, and Noah. And were neither left lawless, nor utterly desperate as under the meer damning violated Law, which now no more offered ⟨p. 3⟩Life to any, the condition being become of natural impossibility: God is not to be supposed to say now to sinners, If you be not Sinners you shall li•• ; when it's known that they are.