Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

I defire the an ethi ow to to react Mut:, culus, Loc. Com. de Re. (milli) 62o, 62.1 622. So the Auguft. Confefr. the Lutherans commonly, and the Fathers too commonly fay as much. Lege Terrull. con:, Marcion, cap. 23,2,4. ufeb,prxpara. done hvang. z.pag, 190. Ex`Gri- gine Macari. us, Horn. z6, P342. &c: ( toz ) wing Faith, that is, Accepteth of Chrift and life as offered, im; mediately all fin is pardoned acivally, which before was pardoned but conditionally, and that their pardon,as to the prefent time, is ' not now Conditional, but as Abfolute ( the Condition being per- formed) : and I never thought otherwife. And this pardon ex- tendeth to every fin, that is then in being, or ever was on that perfon , fo that as to the fins Remitted , it is as an Abfolute Rerniffion. Conchs. 9. In this Rerniffion God doth Accept them as chil- dren into his favour, and difcharge them from all guilt of eternal puniftiment, and ofall Deftrudive_punifhment in this Life ; yea, from all that is not retained for, and fandified to a greater good then the evil comes to : having promifed them that all {hall work. together for good to them that love God , Ron4.8.28. ti 'maw. IQ. If the more illuminated, but cenforiousBrethren, who have blazedabroad fach calumnies, and jealoufies of me,for this one word, (in another Book) have the patience to bear it, I will repeat again to them the fame Doctrine, (for I am far from recanting it) viz. It is myfirong opinion, and am confident of it, that no Ynflified-SanElified perfon,jhall ever lofe his inflification or all his finglification , and that God halopromifed to carafe them to perfevere, and to perform the Conditions ofpardonfor thefieture,that they may infallibly be pardoned. es/end I am yet morefirongly per- /waded andconfident that Godbath promifed all this concerning his EleHo Yet for this very Dothine, and thefe terms, have zealous, Godly, tender confcienc't Divines given out, that I wrote againft perfeverance, yea and have fo muttered abroad that my writings are dangerous, that poor Chriftians are deterred fromWing them, yea they have engaged Tome in trouble of confcience not to read that Book, as containing verydangerous matter; with which deal- ing I amwell content, if Chrift approve of it , and confcience at Taft find comfort in it ( if they look to find any comfort in their works, and fuch works ) and if Satan gain no more by it then I lofe, and if it be no lois to thofe that need them, (as I think in this bookifb age it cannot be much. ) Concha. I Y. I believe that when ever the juitified do commit any fin, they have a prefent and effeCtual certain remedy at hand for their pardon, that is, the merit of Chrifts blood and his in- erceffion, the Love of God , the promife of pardon, in which they .t

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