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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.
A Breviate of the Doctrine of Justification.
Pr. 1. WE must first agree, what Righteousness is. Righteousness is formally a Relation: And therefore must have the definition of a Relation: I need not tell Scholars what that is.
Pr. 1. WE must first agree, what Righteousness is. Righteousness is formally a Relation: And therefore must have the definition of a Relation: I need not tell Schollars what that is.
2. The subject of this Relation, is, first mens actions and habits, and their Titles and Rights, and then their Persons as the subject of these.
3. Righteousness is a Relation to the Rule or Law: And is an Agreeableness thereto: If it be Gods Law, it is Righteousness before God. If but mans, it is but humane Righteousness.