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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.
§. 39. Though the great end of God's Judgment of Man will be to glorify his own Justice, Mercy and Wisdom, and to glorify Christ's Righteousness, yet the Cause of the day, which is to be decided, is not whether Christ be righteous, but We: Nor whether he fulfilled his mediatorial Law; which is presupposed.
§. 39. Though the great end of God's Judgment of Man will be to glorifie his own Iustice, Mercy and Wisdom, and to glorifie Christ's Righteousness, yet the Cause of the day, which is to be decided, is not whether Christ be righteous, but We: Nor whether he fulfilled his mediatorial Law; which is presupposed.
§. 40. Justification being related to (real or possible) Accusation, so many things as the Accusation may extend to, the Justification must extend to if perfect.
§. 40. Iustification being related to (real or possible) Accusation, so many things as the Accusation may extend to, the Justification must extend to if perfect.
§. 41. But no man is perfectly and absolutely just or justifiable: For instance, 1. If we be accused to have sinned, we cannot be justified directly against this Accusation, but must plead guilty by Confession. For factum non potest fieri infectum, and that Fact will for ever be culpable: [Adam did sin] will for ever be a true assertion. The Guilt of fact or fault is never done away in it self; [that it was really a fault] and [that we really ⟨p. 247⟩did it,]. will be an everlasting Truth: Of which more afterward.