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152. Justification is a word of many significations, the Scheme whereof ¹should I give them all, would seem to most Readers a troublesome distinguishing. Therefore I take up with these three most notable senses. •. Justification constitutive: 2. Sentential: 3. Executive.

152. Justification is a word of many significations, the Scheme whereof ¹should I give them all, would seem to most Readers a troublesome di•tinguishing. Therefore I take up with these three most notable senses. •. Justification constitutive: 2. Sentential: 3. Executive.

1. 1And 1. Of constitutive Justification.

The first is to make a man righteous; The second is to judge him righteous; The third is to use him as righteous. 1. By Impunity; 2. Reward.^*

The first is to make a man righteous; The second is to judge him righte•us; The third is to use him as righteous. 1. By Impunity; 2. Reward.^*

1. *The Papists are confounded in the point of Justification, by sticking to confounding words: They talk of Justification and remission of sin, but cannot tell men intelligibly what they mean. They say that Remission is a putting away the sin it self, and not only the Reatum poenae, and yet say (many) that it may be done without any physical change of the Sinner. 1. By sin they mean, not the Habit; for that cannot be removed without a physical change. 2. Nor the act For that is past as soon as done. 3. When they say it is macula moralis habitualiter remanens; they talk gibberish and play with a metaphor, and the word [habitualiter;] A true habit is quid physicum, and what macula is they can tell no man besides a habit, disposition, privation r relation: If they mean that it is the Reatus culpae, or culpability that is done away, and not only the Reatus poenae, they hold he same thing which they oppose in those Protestants that go too far from them. And it is not sound: For the pardoned Siner will be culpable, though not punishable for ever; that is, will be really the man that sinned; and it will be an everlasting truth, This man sinned, though he be pardoned: See Pet. a S. Joseph. Theol. Speculat. l. 4. c. 10. pag. 509, 510, 511. The Papists say, Homo est formaliter justus per formam gratiae ipst exrisecam, & non tantum per justitiam Christi illi imputatam: And yet [Nullus actus quantumvis perfectus sive sit contritio, sive Amor Dei super omnia, est caus formalis justificationis: Patres dientes charitatem esse perfectam justitiam, intelligendi sunt dispositive, non autem formaliter. Because it is in the Habit, and not in the Act, r rather as others of them say in some internal inclination antecedent to the habits of Faith, Hope and Love, that they place Justification, or as we call it, Sanctification, Pet. a S. Joseph. Thes. Univers. de grat. Hab. pag. 88, 89.