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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
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39. By this it is very plain how far a man must be justified in Judgment by his own personal Righteousness; and also how to understand, Matth. 25▪ •nd all the descriptions of the last Judgment, and the Reasons there assigned of the Sentence; and what ⟨p. 9⟩it is to be Justified or Condemned by our words, and to be judged according to our works, or what we have done in obedience or disobedience to the Law of grace; and what is meant in James by being justified by works, and not by faith alone. For though Christs righteousness is to be then honoured, it is not his part, but ours, that is by him to be Examined and Judged. And it is the Law of Grace by which we must be judged, which prescribed us the Conditions of Pardon and Salvation. The performance of which must therefore be the cause of the day to be Examined and Judged.
4. To justify a mans Right to Salvation is to justify the man when his right is the thing tried: Therefore the causes of our Right to Salvation are necessary causes of our Justification. All this is plain, and I think, not by a Christian to be denied: And is not here enough to be the matter of our Christian peace and concord in this one point of Justification. But we are not so happy; It is a greater number of Controversies that the teachers of Christians have raised about it, than many hours will serve to handle. I will name some that are too many, and yet far from all, and give you my sense of them plainly and briefly, that you may truly understand the matter and me.
Cont. 1. Passing by all the old quarrels, about Christs Person, by the Arians, Nestorians, Eutychians, Monothelites, Phantasiastae, and abundance more, about Justification it self, the first that I shall mention is that which a few great and worthy men have unhappily raised, Whether Justification be not an Immanent act in God, and so eternal: This they assert, and I deny: There is nothing in God but God; Nothing therefore that hath beginning and