A26923:890
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.
CHAP. XXI. Of the nature of Righteousness, Justification, and Pardon.
CHAP. XXI. Of the nature of Righteousness, Iustification, and Pardon.
§. 1. THE Controversies about Justification have made a great noise; but I think that those de re are few, in comparison of those de nomine, even among all sorts of Christians; and the confounding them by unskilful Heads, who have made ⟨p. 239⟩the ignorant believe, that those which are but de nomine, are de re, hath kindled foolish Wrath, and quenched Christian Love, and taken up poor Souls with a deceitful Zeal, who have thought that they were contending for great and necessary Truths, when it was but for Logical Notions, Names, and Modes of Expression, over-commended to them by their several Teachers.
§. 2. The Words Justice (Righteousness) and Justification, are very ambiguous used in many senses in the Scriptures, and in the Writings of Divines, and in the common use of men, which I have opened in so many Books, and so largely, as shall here excuse my brevity: The Senses which we are now most concerned to take notice of, are these following.
§. 2. The Words Iustice (Righteousness) and Iustification, are very ambiguous used in many sences in the Scriptures, and in the Writings of Divines, and in the common use of men, which I have opened in so many Books, and so largely, as shall here excuse my brevi•y: The Sences which we are now most concerned to take notice of, are these following.