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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.
29. He that is made righteous, is justifiable in Judgment, and virtually justified (in Law.)
30. No sinner is made righteous as to the Preceptive part of the Law of Innocency; it being a contradiction to have been a sinner and no sinner.
31. Pardon of sin doth not make the fact done to be undone, or not done, nor the sin to be no sin, nor not to have deserved punishment: But it remitteth the punishment and the fault, so far as it inferreth punishment, because of the merit and satisfaction of the Mediator; and delivereth the sinner from that which he was bound to suffer by the violated Law.
32. To make a man righteous before God that hath sinned, all these things must concur: 1. He must have a Mediator that must answer the Ends of the Law that condemneth him, and so meriteth his Justification. 2. This Saviour must make him a Pardoning and Justifying Covenant, to convey the right of the purchased benefits to him. 3. He himself (by grace) must perform the Conditions of that Covenant; accepting the free gift believingly according to its nature and use. 4. Upon this the Covenant (by virtue of the foresaid Merit of the Mediator) must effectually justify him.