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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.
39. Why pray they for Reformation, and Church-prosperity, and the Thousand Years Glorious State, if sin be so harmless a thing?
40. If all that Christ Merited, be really the Elects, immediately on his purchase, are not all the Elect in Heaven already; yea, before they had any being; whence then is all the gross Ignorance and Error, and blind Defence of Satan's falsehoods, under the Name of Christ and Truth? Why censure they Conformists and others that differ from them? If all that Christ hath, be already ours, and we are as perfect as he, what can Duty, or more Grace, or Heaven, add ⟨p. 70⟩to us? And why would they have men read their Books, to do no good, and avoid no evil? Is it to make up any imperfection in the Obedience or Righteousness of Christ?
40. If all that Christ Merited, be really the Elects, immediately on his purchase, are not all the Elect in Heaven already; yea, before they had any being; whence then is all the gross Ignorance and Errour, and blind Defence of Satans falsehoods, under the Name of Christ and Truth? Why censure they Conformists and others that differ from them? If all that Christ hath, be already ours, and we are as perfect as he, what can Duty, or more Grace, or Heaven, add ⟨p. 70⟩to us? And why would they have men read their Books, to do no good, and avoid no evil? Is it to make up any imperfection in the Obedience or Righteousness of Christ?
41. Did Christ redeem us from under his own Government, and the Law of Grace? Are we not under the Law [of Christ and Faith, and Liberty] to Christ? Or is there any transgression, if no Law? Or is it Law that we shall not be Ruled and Judged by?