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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But he is charitably uncharitable, when he saith, [Never any man in his wits affirmed it so, (that the righteousness of Christ is the formal cause of our Justification.) It's too charitable to hide that which cannot be hid, of so great a number; whom it seems he never read (for all his Commission from all the Systematical Divines of Germany, &c. p. 696.) And it's too uncharitable to judge ⟨image 21⟩so many excellent men out of their wits. The truth is, so many speak so, that I have been doubtful I should be smartly censured for saying otherwise.]
Forma qua justificamur est misericordia Patris & perfecta Justitia filii, saith Ant. Fayus in his Accurate Theses, Th. 60. p. 280. (And by misericordia Patris being the form, you may see how he understood Imputation.)
The number that thus speak, are too great here to be recited: so that even the most judicious Davenant, lest he should go out of the road, was fain to make this the Theses to be proved by him; Imputatam Christi obedientiam esse causam formalem justificationis nostrae, probatur; Cap. 28. p. 362. &c. de Instit. habit. But let none turn this to our reproach, nor take all these for mad; for it is but an unapt name, and by him and many others soundly meant: for the greater part of these Divines say but that Imputatio Justitiae Christi & Remissio peccatorum are the form, not of Justification, as in us, but as it is Actus Justificantis, (as Altingius, Maresius, Sharpius, Bucanus, Spanhemius, Nigrinus, Sohnius, Beumler, and many others: And Paraeus, Joh. Crocius de Justif. and many more expressly deny Christ's righteousness to be the formal cause: And I believe that all they that assert it, mean as the rest, though they speak incautelously and unaptly.
The number that thus speak, are too great here to be recited: so that even the most judicious Davenant, lest he should go out of the road, was fain to make this the Theses to be proved by him; Imputatam Christi obedientiam esse causam formalem justificationis nostrae, probatur; Cap. 28. p. 362. &c. de Instit. habit. But let none turn this to our reproach, nor take all these for mad; for it is but an unapt name, and by him and many others soundly meant: for the greater part of these Divines say but that Imputatio Justitiae Christi & Remissio peccatorum are the form, not of Justification, as in us, but as it is Actus Justificantis, (as Altingius, Maresius, Sharpius, Bucanus, Spanhemius, Nigrinus, Sohnius, Beumler, and many others: And Paraeus, Joh. Crocius de Justif. and many more expresly deny Christ's righteousness to be the formal cause: And I believe that all they that assert it, mean as the rest, though they speak incautelously and unaptly.