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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
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.
Righteousness as a Relation to the Promise, or Premiant part of the Sanction, is nothing but our Right to the Reward, Gift, or Benefit, as pleadable and justifiable in foro. Which sometime is founded in merit of our own; sometime in a free Gift: sometime in the merit of another, conjunct with free Gift, which is our case, (other cases concern us not) This last mentioned, is Righteousness as a Relation to the substance of the Promise or Gift: But when the Promise, or Gift, or Testament, or Premiant Law is conditional, as in our case it is, then there is another sort of ⟨p. 261⟩Righteousness necessary, which is Related to the Modus promissionis, and that is, The performance of the condition: which if it be not properly called Righteousness Ethically, yet civilly in a Judiciary sense it is, when it comes to be the cause to be tried and Judged, whether the person have performed the condition, then his cause is just or unjust, and he just or unjust in that respect.
Righteousness as a Relation to the Promise, or Premiant part of the Sanction, is nothing but our Right to the Reward, Gift, or Benefit, as pleadable and justifyable in foro. Which sometime is founded in merit of our own; sometime in a free Gift: sometime in the merit of another, conjunct with free Gift, which is our case, (other cases concern us not) This last mentioned, is Righteousness as a Relation to the substance of the Promise or Gift: But when the Promise, or Gift, or Testament, or Premiant Law is conditional, as in our case it is, then there is another sort of ⟨p. 261⟩Righteousness necessary, which is Related to the Modus promissionis, and that is, The performance of the condition: which if it be not properly called Righteousness Ethically, yet civilly in a Judiciary sense it is, when it comes to be the cause to be tryed and Judged, whether the person have performed the condition, then his cause is just or unjust, and he just or unjust in that respect.
3. Righteousness is either Universal, as to all causes that the person can be concerned in: or it is only particular, as to some causes only, and so but secundum quid to the person.