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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.
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 ⟨p. 150⟩Reatus, or Obligation to it, and the efficacious Act of the Law thus cursing, and the Accusation of the Actor or Accuser, (real or possible) that is such a terminus.
II. But when he saith, Ex parte Termini Legalis est, either still he taketh legal generally, as comprehending the Law of Innocency, of Works, and of Grace, or not. If he do, I must hope he is more intelligent and just, than to insinuate to his Reader, that I ever mention an Evangelical Justification that is not so legal, as to be denominated from the Law of Grace, as distinct from that of Works: If not, he was indebted to his intelligent Reader for some proof, that no Man is justified against this false Accusation; [Thou art by the Law of Grace the Heir of a far sorer punishment, for despising the Remedy, and not performing the Conditions of Pardon and Life. And also for this thou hast no right to Christ, and the Gifts of his Covenant of Grace]. But no such proof is found in his Writings, nor can be given.