A26923:900
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.
§. 7. Righteousness is both materially and formally distinguishable as towards God or Man: Materially, as it is God or Man that we deal justly or injuriously by: Formally, as it is God himself, or Men ruling under him, who give us Laws, and make the debitum vel jus, or dispose of Propriety.
§. 7. Righteousness is both materially and formally distinguishable as towards God or Man: Materially, as it is God or Man that we deal •ustly or injuriously by: Formally, as it is God himself, or Men ruling under him, who give us Laws, and make the debitum vel jus, or dispose of Propriety.
§. 8. Righteousness towards God being Relative to his Laws, is to be distinguished according to the several Laws that men are under, and according to the several parts of the Law, which give the word divers Senses.
§. 8. Righteousness towards God being Relative to his Laws, is to be distinguished according to the several Laws that men are under, and according to the several parts of the Law, which give the word divers Sences.
§. 9. 1. Righteousness as related to the Precept as such, is nothing but Obedience, whether partial, sincere, or perfect: He that doth righteousness is righteous.