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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.
26. Though we are not capable Receivers of Justification, till we thus penitently and believingly consent, yet when we do so, it is the merit of Christs Righteousness by which we are justified: For the Covenant of God is but his Instrument by which he giveth us Christ (to be our Head) and Life in and with him, and so giveth us Justification as procured by his Merits.
26. Though we are not capable Receivers of Justification, till we thus penitently and believingly consent, yet when we do so, it is the merit of Christs Righteousness by which we are justified: For the Covenant of God is but his Instrument by which he giveth us Christ (to be our Head) and Life in and with him, and so giveth us Justification as procu••d by his Merits.
27. Justification is a word of many senses: sometimes it signifieth [making us righteous] sometimes, the Law or Covenants virtual judging us righteous, it being the Rule of Judgment: sometimes Gods esteeming us righteous in his own mind: sometimes for a Justifying by evidence or Witness: sometimes by •polo•y of an Advocate: sometimes by the Sentence of the Judge: and sometime for the Execution of that Sentence. But the notable special sorts are three, Making just, •udging just, and Using as just: And they that will dispute of Justification, and not tell in what sense they take the word, do but abuse their time and talk.
27. Justification is a word of many senses: sometimes it signifieth [making us righteous] sometimes, the Law or Covenants virtu•l judging us righteo•s, it being the Rule of Judgment: sometimes Gods esteeming us righteous in his own mind: sometimes for a Justifying by •vidence or Witness: sometimes by poloy of an Advocate: sometimes by the Sentence of the Judge: and sometime for the Execution of that Sentence. But the notable special sorts are three, Making just, udging just, and Ʋsing as just: And they that will dispute of Justification, and not tell in what sense they take the word, do but abuse their time and talk.