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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.
24. The profession of this Faith and Consent in Baptism, maketh men visible Christians and Church▪members; and true heart consent in Faith maketh men Living and Justified Members.
25. This belief and consent, or performance of the Condition, is not the Efficient Cause of our Pardon or Justification, but is the necessary […] position or qualification of the Receiver, in the very nature of the Act suitable and needful, and by Divine Institution and Promise made the Condition and acceptable.
25. This belief and consent, or performance of the Condition, is not the Efficient Cause of our Pardon or Justification, but is the necessary 〈…〉 position or qualification of the Receiver, in the very nature of the Act suitable and needful, and by Divine Institution and Promise made the Condition and acceptable.
26. Though we are not capable Receivers of Justification, till we thus penitently and believingly consent, yet when we do so, it is the merit of Christs Righteousness by which we are justified: For the Covenant of God is but his Instrument by which he giveth us Christ (to be our Head) and Life in and with him, and so giveth us Justification as procured by his Merits.
26. Though we are not capable Receivers of Justification, till we thus penitently and believingly consent, yet when we do so, it is the merit of Christs Righteousness by which we are justified: For the Covenant of God is but his Instrument by which he giveth us Christ (to be our Head) and Life in and with him, and so giveth us Justification as procu••d by his Merits.