A26923:928
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.
§. 35. II. Public judicial Justification (for private I pass by) is virtually in the Law, or constitutive Justification before described: For when a man is righteous, the Law justifieth him virtually: And this is the sense that we are said to be justified by Faith in, primarily in Scripture: A Believer is made just indeed, and so is justifiable in Judgment, that is, justified virtually by the Law: As we use to say, The Law doth justify such a man.)
§. 35. II. Publick judicial Iustification (for private I pass by) is virtually in the Law, or constitutive Justification before described: For when a man is righteous, the Law justifieth him virtually: And this is the sence that we are said to be justified by Faith in, primarily in Scripture: A Believer is made just indeed, and so is justifiable in Iudgment, that is, justified virtually by the Law: As we use to say, The Law doth justifie such a man.)
§. 36. 2. But actual judicial Justification is principally by our Judge and subordinately by Christ as our Advocate, by Plea; and by Evidence and Witness; which is chiefly by the Righteousness of the Cause laid open to all the World.
§. 36. 2. But actual judicial Iustification is principally by our Iudge and subordinately by Christ as our Advocate, by Plea; and by Evidence and Witness; which is chiefly by the Righteousness of the Cause laid open to all the World.
§. 37. It is by the Law of Grace (the edition which men lived under) that Christ will judge the World: Therefore we must accordingly judge of his Justification.