Baxter - BT763 B397 1658

(387) out of Date. And therefore it contiuueth fill to jufiifie. Thy makingof our Laws, are Acts pall by Parliaments long ago, and fo not continued. Will you therefore conclude that the Moral Agency or Efficiency of thefe Laws is.plfl, and there- fore they do not condemnor juftifie ? I know no grc=uud that can bear your conclulons, except with RifhWorth ( Dialog,) and fuch other of the more impudent Papas, one fhould v li- fe the Scripture, and fay, that they were only Mifcellaneous occafional writings, and never intended to be gods Law, or our Rule of Faith and Life : but I believeyou will never come to that. Surely David frequently Meth the old Scriptures that were in his Times Gods Law : And why many Divines fhould ftrike in with fotne Lutherans. Error in denying the Gofpel or NewScripture tobe properly [ Ckrif s Law,] and fo inveigh again thofe that call it the. .New Law, I know no Realm ; but that the ignisfarms of contention and preju- dice milleadeth them. O happyDifputers that are not car- ried head-long into extreams by the fpirit of Contrachaion i What moré proper to the reformed Religion, as fuch,then to honour the Scriptures? And how do thefe men vilifle them, and rob them of their higheft honor, that deny them to be the Laws of God ? yea deny this to the Gofpel it fell ? Is not Chrift the Law-giver ? I/a, 3 3. 22.Pfal. 60.7. and i o8. and the King? Muft not the Law go out of Zion, lfa.2.3. And is not that the Law and Tefimony to which we muff leek ? Multitudes of Scriptures, and moll of theFathers(that ever 1 read)do call the Gofpel: Chrifts Law- or the[new law.] 2.Toyour fecondException, Lagainfl my approving a fpeech ofDr.w.]I anf. z .Do I need to tell you how unl'ke this laying of Dr. Wards is to that of the Council of Tram: ? You know by 3ufificarion they mean principally Sanáification? rut the Dr. faith not that thefe are preparatives to Juftfiicar ion. Sure you could not ferioufly fufpect me to join with the Papiffs when they (peak ofone Subjeft, and I of another. The aas ofthat Seffion will tel youmore differences between them and me, then is worth the while to repeat : and you know how largely Ciemmitiau endeavours to prove that by Dfpofitions and Preparations-, The Council' mean tv%WWrirs and that Ddd 2 they

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