Baxter - BX1763 B28

(46) tans written which affert notonly the poffibility,but the abfolute neceflìty of Piety, Charity, Humility, &c. without which none can fee God, ( Infants Cafe is not here medled with.) I know not one Perfon in all the Land, or World, that will not abhor, as falfe, what you here charge in common on thePuritans, unlefs he he a very grofs Antinomian, or fame groffer Heretick here unknown: Proteflants, Puritans, Separatifts, Anabapm tiffs, yea, Quakers, all abhor it : And yet you fearednot to put this in Print ? Perhaps you will pretend for it the Dottrine of Juftification by Faith alone ? But they that fay that Faith alone going firff with Repentance, Both juftifie them, by procuring the pardon oftheir fins, and their Unionwith Chrift, do fay that at the fame moment oftime it alto fan tifieth them, by procuring fromChrift theSpirit of San.ification, giving them Love, Humili- ty, Piety, 6,c. And that this is of abfolute neceflìty to their Salvation, Heh. 12, 14. Mat. 18. 3. Rom. 8. z. 6. 7. 13. So muchofyour falle fellcondemning description of a Puritan. CHAP. III. II. yU U next Characterize the Prelatical NotefIant Having laid beforep.N. [Their Prt achers in their sermons have little Life or Zeal ; and feldom difcourfe of fuch Truths (cs are apt to awaken Mens Confciences, and make them lay to heart thegreat concern of the salvation oftheir Souls. Or if they do at any time preach of judg- ment, or of Hell, Repentance, or a New Life, they do it very

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