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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
Chapter 23: How Faith justifieth; and how it is imputed to us for Righteousness.
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.
§. 20. And Christ's Priesthood hath many other actions belonging to it, besides his Merits offered for us: Even his present Intercession: Which must be excluded, if Christ's Righteousness here, as under the Law, were the only Object of this Faith.
§. 21. II. The second Question I had never troubled the World about so much as I have done, had I not found too many Protestants scandalize the Papists, by laying too much on the Nation of Instrumentality, ill explained. But the judicious are here all in sense of the same mind.
§. 21. II. The second Question I had never troubled the World about so much as I have done, had I not found too many Protestants scandalize the Papists, by laying too much on the Nation of Instrumentality, ill explained. But the judicious are here all in sence of the same mind.
§. 22. For by an Instrument they mean not, 1. an instrumental efficient Cause of Justification: 2. Nor of making Christ's Righteousness ours: For we give it not to our selves. 3. But they take the word Instrument mechanically or less accurately, and tell us, that they mean a receiving Instrument, as a Boy *catcheth a Ball in his Hat: But so as that it is a moral Instrument, that is, both materially a moral act, and the Instrument of a moral not physical reception.
- *Dr. Kendall.Dr. Kendal.