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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.
God accounteth not Christs Divine Righteousness to be our Righteousness, nor yet his Humane Habitual Righteousness, nor his Obedience to the Law proper to the Mediator, nor his Obedience to the Law of Moses (which as such bound not you or me,) nor his perfect fulfilling the Law of Innocency, nor his satisfactory Sacrifice for sin, nor his Resurrection, Ascension, Intercession, &c. But he only accounteth these to be the Causes of our Righteousness, and not our Righteousness it self. Though the Meritorious Cause may be called the Meritorious Matter in a remote sense, as purchasing the free Gift of our Formal Righteousness.
God accounteth not Christs Divine Righteousness to be our Righteousness, nor yet his Humane Habitual Righteousness, nor his Obedience to the Law proper to the Mediator, nor his Obedience to the Law of Moses (which as such bound not you or me,) nor his perfect fulfilling the Law of Innocency, nor his satisfactory Sacrifice for sin, nor his Resurrection, Ascension, Intercession, &c. But he only accounteth these to be the Causes of our Righteousness, and not our Righ•eousness it self. Though the Meritorious Cause may be called the Meritorious Matter in a remote sense, as purchasing the free Gift of our Formal Righteousness.
Though this also is but an unnecessary Logical name, the thing being without it plainlier opened, Relations having properly no Material Cause, and the Subject being it that is usually so called; and our Jus being our Formal Righteousness, and the Covenant Donation the Fundamentum Juris, and Christs Meritorious Righteousness ⟨p. 109⟩being but the cause of that Fundamentum or Titulus, it can be called the Matter of our Right but in a remote sense, and such a Matter as is without us, paid for us, but not ours in it self, but the CAUSE of that Relation which is ours.
Though this also is but an unnecessary Logical name, the thing being without it plainlier opened, Relations having properly no Material Cause, and the Subject being it that is usually so called; and our Jus being our Formal Righteousness, and the Covenant Donation the Fundamentum Juris, and Christs Meritorious Righteousness