A26923:940
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.
§. 46. And seeing it will be the work of the day, to judge men as performers or non-performers of the said Conditions of the Law of Grace, ⟨p. 248⟩therefore it is that the Scripture speaketh so much of inherent or performed Righteousness, and of Christ's judging men according to their works, that is, their works which are the performance of that Condition.
§. 47. To be judged according to our Works, is to be justified or condemned according to our Works: For to be judged is the genus, and to be justified or condemned are the species. Judging is justifying or condemning.
§. 47. To be judged according to our Works, is to be justified or condemned according to our Works: For to be judged is the genus, and to be justified or condemned are the species. Iudging is justifying or condemning.
§. 48. While all are agreed, that all men shall be justified or condemned according to their Works, it is unreasonable to quarrel at that height that many do, about the syllable [BY] (whether men be justified and condemned by their works) as if [according to them] and [by them] had a different sense; when as to judicial justification the sense is the very same, though as to the making of men just, the sense may differ.
§. 48. While all are agreed, that all men shall be justified or condemned according to their Works, it is unreasonable to quarrel at that height that many do, about the syllable [BY] (whether men be justified and condemned by their works) as if [according to them] and [by them] had a different sence; when as to judicial justification the sence is the very same, though as to the making of men just, the sence may differ.