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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.
22. This Law or Covenant giveth a Conditional Pardon to all in the tenor of it, with Adoption and Right to Life Eternal: But actual Pardon and Right accrueth to none, till the Condition be performed, which is to be Believers, or their Infant seed dedicated to God by Covenant Consent.
22. This Law or Covenant giveth a Conditional Pardon to all in the tenour of it, with Adoption and Right to Life Eternal: But actual Pardon and Right accrueth to none, till the Condition be performed, which is to be Believers, or their Infant seed dedicated to God by Covenant Consent.
23. This Condition is not that we our selves make God amends or satisfaction, or give him any thing that hath any merit in Commutative Justice, or do any kind of work which shall make the reward to be of debt, and not of grace: But it is [the Belief of, and Consent to the Covenant of Grace, and the Believing Acceptance of the gifts and grace of the Covenant, according to their nature, and […] their proper use; and is the same thing which is to be professed in Baptism, which is the solemnizing of this mutual Covenant, and in which God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, do give themselves to us, for grace and glory, and we give up our selves ⟨p. 6⟩by consent to him, believingly accepting his grace, and penitently renouncing the lusts of the flesh, the world and the Devil; and so are sacramentally invested in a state of Justification, Adoption and Spiritual Life.
23. This Condition is not that we our selves make God amends or satisfaction, or give him any thing that hath any merit in Commutative Justice, or do any kind of work which shall make the reward to be of debt, and not of grace: But it is [the Belief of, and Consent to the Covenant of Grace, and the Believing Acceptance of the gifts and grace of the Covenant, according to their nature, and 〈…〉 their proper use; and is the same thing which is to be professed in Baptism, which is the solemnizing of this mutual Covenant, and in which God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, do give themselves to us, for grace and glory, and we give up our selves