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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. And as on the contrary our condemnation while we abide in sin, or Gods anger against the sinner, is not the threatening promulged, but that which comes from God himself.
Treat. And as on the contrary our condemnation while we abide in sin, or Gods anger against the sinner, is not the threatning promulged, but that which comes from God himself.
Answ. 1. Our Condemnation per sententiam Judicis, is not the thing in question, not yet the explication of it; but our constitutive condemnation. And that it is not indeed the Letter of the Law, (whoever said so) but activè, it is the action of the Law, & passivè sumpta, it is the Relative effect of the Law.
2. From your own Argument reversed, I unresistibly make good my Cause against you. Condemnation active is the Laws act, and condemnation Passive is the Laws immediate effect: therefore Justification is alike produced by the Promise or Gift in the Gospel. The Antecedent is proved, John 3.18. he that believeth on him, is not condemned, (for the Obligation is dissolved) but he that believeth not, is condemned already.] Which must be by some Law, it being before Judgement and Execution, 2 Cor. 3 9. The Law in its delivery is called [the ministration ⟨p. 88⟩of condemnation] and that of the Gospel [the ministration of righteousness] Jam. 2.9. men are said to be [convinced of the Law as transgressors.] Though Paul confute the false conceits of Justification by the Law, yet he took them for no unfit phrases, to speak of [the Law working wrath]