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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
You make this to contain two Acts, and you Name three, 1. A grant or Donation of the thing it self to be ours. 2. A will of dealing with us accordingly. 3. An actual so dealing with us.
Ans. 1. De nomine, I deny that [Greek or Hebrew] doth in Scripture signify the giving of Righteousness to him that had it not: but the reckoning it on account to him that by gift first had it. 2. Nor doth it primarily signify willing to use, and using as righteous, but only by consequence inferreth it.
Ans. 1. De nomine, I deny that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 doth in Scripture signifie the giving of Righteousness to him that had it not: but the reckoning it on account to him that by gift first had it. 2. Nor doth it primarily signifie willing to use, and using as righteous, but only by consequence inferreth it.
But 2. De re here is no Explication how Imputing is giving, or how Righteousness is given us: There is no question but all the Righteousness that we have is given us by God: But the very heart of the Controversy is, How the Righteousness of Christ is given us and made ours: In that Righteousness is found, 1. The Matter. 2. The Form. 1. The matter is, 1. The Habits. 2. The Acts of Christ in the Divine and Humane Nature: Are these given us, and do we possess them in themselves? The Acts are past, and so are nothing now: and nothing is no bodies actual possession. The Acts and Habits were Accidents which sine interitu cannot pass from Subject to Subject: Divers Subjects prove diversity of Accidents. 2. The Form is a Relation, and so an Accident also: And they must needs be two Accidents, that are Formal Righteousness in Christ and us, unless we are the same Subject Person. Therefore neither matter nor Relative form in Christ and Man is the same individual Accident. How then is it ours! What is there in it besides matter (the subject and fundamentum) and form? it's plain that, 1. The Benefits are given us, and are our own by that Gift: All that consist in jure, in right, (as