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Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…
Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions of divers learned and reverend brethren / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Whether Works are a Condition of Justification? And so whether we a… › Part
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Treat. Of Justification. p. 126. [Justification is a gracious and just Act of God, whereby through Christ our Mediator and Surety, a sinner, but repenting and believing, is pronounced just, and hereby put into a state of Reconciliation and favour with God, to the praise of Gods glorious attributes, and to the Believers eternal salvation. I shall not examine this Description by accurate Logical Rules, &c.
Treat. Of Justification. p. 126. [Justification is a gratious and just Act of God, whereby through Christ our Mediator and Surety, a sinner, but repenting and believing, is pronounced just, and hereby put into a state of Reconciliation and favour with God, to the praise of Gods glorious attributes, and to the Believers eternal salvation. I shall not examine this Description by accurate Logical Rules, &c.
Answ. First, Doubtless an accurate, rather then popular definition would as soon be expected from you, as from most; and here as anywhere in a Treatise purposely on the Subject. Secondly, Pronunciation doth not go before Constitution, not put us into a state of Reconciliation and favour, but find us in it, you say your self. pag. 120. To justify, is to constitute and to declare or pronounce righteous, And in your first Treatise of Justification. pag. 7. Indeed the Apostle, Rom. 5. saith, many ⟨p. 84⟩are made righteous by the second Adam; which if not meant of inherent holiness doth imply that the righteousness we have by Christ, is not merely declarative, but also constitutive; and indeed, one is in order before the other; for a man must be righteous, before he can be pronounced or declared so to be.]
Answ. First, Doubtless an accurate, rather then popular definition would as soon be expected from you, as from most; and here as anywhere in a Treatise purposely on the Subject. Secondly, Pronunciation doth not go before Constitution, not put us into a state of Reconciliation and favour, but find us in it, you say your self. pag. 120. To justifie, is to constitute and to declare or pronounce righteous, And in your first Treatise of Justification. pag. 7. Indeed the Apostle,