A26923:923
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.
§. 30. We are justified from, or against the curse of that first Law, by deliverance or grace; but it is by a Redeemer, and not by that Law.
§. 31. The Causes of our whole Justification (whose parts were before-mentioned) are these: 1. The constitutive Causes (called Material and Formal) are before opened, being divers in their divers parts: In brief, our Righteousness now is [our Interest in the meritorious Righteousness of Christ, and our own performing of the Conditions of that Interest, or of the New Covenant by his Grace, and thereupon our Right to Impunity and Life (or to Salvation from destructive Punishment, and to Glory.) 2. The efficient Causes are, 1. Principal, God: 2. Mediatory and meritorious, Christ and his Righteousness: 3. Instrumental (as to our jus ad impunitatem & gloriam) the Condonative and Donative Covenant. 4. The material Dispositio receptiva of this Right, is our Faith and Repentance, or performance of the Covenant's Condition hereof. 5. The principal Cause of this Faith or Disposition, is the Holy Ghost. 6. The instrumental, is the Word. 7. The mediate Agent is Man.
§. 31. The Causes of our whole Iustification (whose parts were before-mentioned) are these: 1. The constitutive Causes (called Material and Formal) are before opened, being divers in their divers parts: In brief, our Righteousness now is [our Interest in the meritorious Righteousness of Christ, and our own performing of the Conditions of that Interest, or of the New Covenant by his Grace, and thereupon our Right to Impunity and Life (or to Salvation from destructive Punishment, and to Glory.) 2. The efficient Causes are, 1. Principal, God: 2. Mediatory and meritorious, Christ and his Righteousness: 3. Instrumental (as to our jus ad impunitatem & gloriam) the Condonative and Donative Covenant. 4. The material Dispositio receptiva of this Right, is our Faith and Repentance, or performance of the Covenant's Condition hereof. 5. The principal Cause of this Faith or Disposition, is the Holy Ghost. 6. The instrumental, is the Word. 7. The mediate Agent is Man.