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Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants…Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants…
Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false devised sense by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false divised sence by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons and Jonathan Robinson, 1675
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.
1. The Effect of the Donative Justification of the Law of Grace, is Justitia data; a Relation (oft described).
2. The Effect of the Spirits giving us Inherent Righteousness, is a Quality given, Acts excited, and a Relation thence resulting.
3. The Effect of Justification per sententiam Judicis, is immediately a Relation, Jus Judicatum.
4. The Effect of an Advocates Justification, is Justitia & persona ut defensa seu vindicata.
5. The Effect of Executive Justification, is Actual Impunity or Liberation. And are all these one Terminus, or hence one name then? These are the Termini of Justificatio Justificantis, ut Actionis; and nothing of this nature can be plainer, than that, 1. Remission of sin (passively taken) the Reatus or Obligatio ad poenam, (the first ad quem, and the second à quo) are both the immediate Termini of our Act of Justification. 2. That the Terminus Justitiae, as it is the formal Relation of a Justified Person, as such, is the Law as Norma Actionum, as to Righteous Actions, and the Law or Covenant, as making the Condition of Life, as to those Actions, sub ratione Conditionis & Tituli. And the Promissory and Minatory part of the Law, as Justitia is Jus praemii, & impunitatis. First, The Actions, and then the Person are Just in Relation to the Law or Covenant, by which their Actions and they are to be judged. But the remoter Terminus is the malum à quo, and the bonum ad quod. And as à quo, it is not only the evil denounced, but also the