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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.
Mr. W. 10. That opinion which considereth a person under a two-fold Covenant at the same time, ought not to be admitted: But to require both Legal and Evangelical Righteousness, is to consider him under the Covenant of works and Grace: I conclude therefore that two sorts of righteousness are not necessarily required to our Justification.
Answ. How far we are, or are not under the Covenant of works, I will not here trouble you by digressing, in this rambling Dispute to enquire. But to your Minor I say, this opinion considereth man only under the curse of the Law till Christ take it off him, by being made a curse for us, and making over the fruit of his merits and suffering to us.
Mr. W. 2. As for the Subjects of these kinds of Righteousness, I thus declare. 1. That Jesus Christ and he alone who was truly endued with Legal righteousness, who as he was made under the Law, so he did not destroy but fulfil it; and if he had not been the subject of Legal righteousness in himself, he could not have been the Author of Evangelical Righteousness to us.
Mr. W. 2. As for the Subjects of these kinds of Righteousness, I thus declare. 1. That Jesus Christ and he alone who was truly endued with Legal righteousness, who as he was made under the Law, so he did not destroy but fulfill it; and if he had not been the subject of Legal righteousness in himself, he could not have been the Author of Evangelical Righteousness to us.