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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.
§. 27. Constitutive Justification is ever first: God never judged a man righteous, that was not righteous.
§. 27. Constitutive Iustification is ever first: God never judged a man righteous, that was not righteous.
§. 28. No man on earth is righteous by the Condition, or by the rewarding Part of the Law of Innocency. Not by the Condition as performed, for that Condition is perfect, perpetual, personal Innocency, which no man hath; nor is any righteous in conformity to the Precept, unless secundum quid, as a damnable Sinner's less unrighteousness may be called Righteousness: Nor is any one justified by the Retributive or Promissory part of that Law, because perfect Innocency is its Condition.
§. 29. Though that Law perfectly justify Christ, who perfectly fulfilled it, we are not therefore ⟨p. 244⟩righteous in the sense of that Law, or justified by it, because Christ fulfilled it (of which more anon:) Because the sense of the Law was not [Thou shalt obey, or another for th•e.] (It never mentioned a vicarious Obedience:) But [thou thy self shalt perfectly obey.]
§. 29. Though that Law perfectly justifie Christ, who perfectly fulfilled it, we are not therefore ⟨p. 244⟩righteous in the sence of that Law, or justified by it, because Christ fulfilled it (of which more anon:) Because the sence of the Law was not [Thou shalt obey, or another for th•e.] (It never mentioned a vicarious Obedience:) But [thou thy self shalt perfectly obey.]