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The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…
The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two sermons lately preached on Rom. 4:5 ... : wherein the nature of justification is opened, as it hath been formerly asserted by all sound Protestants, and the present prevailing errors against the said doctrine detected / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1692
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Moreover, 'tis worth noting to observe how Mr. Baxter seems to lay the whole stress of our first Justification to what is promised in our Baptismal Covenant, wherein we profess Faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; sure he might with much ease have foreseen that such who entered into that Baptismal Covenant in the Primitive, Apostolical Days, were such who before they were admitted thereto, were required to believe: And if true Subjects were all justified before they signed that Covenant, the Jailer who cried out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved, was by St. Paul required to believe on the Lord Jesus, with a Promise upon his so doing of being saved: Though I deny not, but that Faith in God the Father, and in the Holy Ghost, is enjoined as well as Faith in the Son; yet 'tis Christ who is the immediate Object of our Faith, and that too as he was crucified for us, and bore our Sins, or was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And 'tis by him that we come to God, and believe in God, and are justified and accepted of God, other foundation (of these things) can no man lay. But Mr. Baxter speaks nothing of this, but of a Faith in general in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; which Faith he says is reputed truly to be the Condition on our part on which Christ and Life by that Baptismal Covenant is made ours, till I met with this passage of Mr. Baxter's.
Moreover, 'tis worth noting to observe how Mr. Baxter seems to lay the whole stress of our first Justification to what is promised in our Baptismal Covenant, wherein we profess Faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; sure he might with much ease have foreseen that such who entered into that Baptismal Covenant in the Primitive, Apostolical Days, were such who before they were admitted thereto, were required to believe: And if true Subjects were all justified before they sign'd that Covenant, the Jailor who cried out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved, was by St. Paul required to believe on the Lord Jesus, with a Promise upon his so doing of being saved: Though I deny not, but that Faith in God the Father, and in the Holy Ghost, is injoined as well as Faith in the Son; yet 'tis Christ who is the immediate Object of our Faith, and that too as he was crucified for us, and bore our Sins, or was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And 'tis by him that we come to God, and believe in God, and are justified and accepted of God, other foundation (of these things) can no man lay. But Mr. Baxter speaks nothing of this, but of a Faith in general in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; which Faith he says is reputed truly to be the Condition on our part on which Christ and Life by that Baptismal Covenant is made ours, till I met with this passage of Mr. Baxter's.