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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
6. That God gave no grace, pardon or salvation by Covenant, till Christs incarnation.
7. That the same faith objectively considered, was necessary to salvation under the first edition of the Covenant of grace as under the last, viz. to believe that Jesus the son of Mary is or must be the Messiah, and that he must die for sin, and rise again and intercede in heaven, and return to raise us and judge the world.
8. That Christs Disciples were not in a state of justification till they believed all this.
9. That all men shall not be judged as they believed and kept (or brake) the condition of the Covenant in that edition which they were under, but all according to the tenor of the last edition.
10. That no faith in God as gracious and merciful to sinners, and as pardoning sin, was necessary before Christs incarnation.