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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.
30. That to expect justification by believing in God the Father, or the Holy Ghost, and in Christ as Christ, in his person and whole office of a saviour, and not only by the foresaid single act, is to seek justification by works, reprehended by Paul, or unlawfully.
31. That faith or repentance are not by Gods gift or promise made any conditions necessary to be done by us, through his grace, that we may have right to Christ or pardon or justification.
32. That our believing in Christ is of equal impossibility to us as our personal perfect innocency.
33. That to believe Heaven, and that God will glorify us for the sake of Christ, and as a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, is no act of that faith which justifieth; as a Condition of justification or salvation.
33. That to believe Heaven, and that God will glorifie us for the sake of Christ, and as a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, is no act of that faith which justifieth; as a Condition of justification or salvation.