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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
Ans. 1. One Justification is but one thing; but there are divers things so called, even in Scripture. When Christ saith, By thy words thou shalt be justified, Mat. 12. and Paul saith, that we are justified by the spirit of God, 1 Cor. 6. 10. and John saith, He that is just, let him▪ be justified still, Rev. 22. they have not all the same Sense. 2. One thing may ⟨p. 265⟩have one form, and yet its many parts have many forms: Our righteousness taken for the whole of it, is one whole, whose form is signified by that general Name of our total righteousness; and yet its parts are all those before-mentioned, which yet each severally are commonly called righteousness. But of these things before.
Ans. 1. One Iustification is but one thing; but there are divers things so called, even in Scripture. When Christ saith, By thy words thou shalt be justified, Mat. 12. and Paul saith, that we are justified by the •pirit of God, 1 Cor. 6. 10. and Iohn saith, He that is just, let him▪ be justified still, Rev. 22. they have not all the same Sence. 2. One thing may ⟨p. 265⟩have one form, and yet its many parts have many forms: Our righteousness taken for the whole of it, is one whole, whose form is signified by that general Name of our total righteousness; and yet its parts are all those before-mentioned, which yet each severally are commonly called righteousness. But of these things before.