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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.
I will not trouble you with so exact a disquisition of the Nature of Righteousness and Justification as I judge fit in it self, both because I have a little heretofore attempted it, and because I find it blamed as puzzling curiosity or needless distinguishing: Though I am not of that mind, yet I have no mind to be troublesome.
I will not trouble you with so exact a disquisition of the Nature of Righteousness and Justification as I judge fit in it self, both because I have a little heretofore attempted it, and because I find it blamed as puzling curiosity or needless distinguishing: Though I am not of that mind, yet I have no minde to be troublesome.
As for the term Justification, 1. It either may signify the Act of the Law or Promise: or the sentence of the Judge: or the Execution of that sentence; For to one of these three senses the word may still be reduced, as we shall have to do with it; that is, to constitutive, or sentential, or Executive Justification; though the sentence is most properly so called. To these, Justification by Plea, Witness, &c. are subservient.
As for the term Justification, 1. It either may signifie the Act of the Law or Promise: or the sentence of the Judge: or the Execution of that sentence; For to one of these three sences the word may still be reduced, as we shall have to do with it; that is, to constitutive, or sentential, or Executive Justification; though the sentence is most properly so called. To these, Justification by Plea, Witness, &c. are subservient.
2. Justification is either opposed to a false Accusation, or to a true.