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An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…
An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errors by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errours by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...
London: printed by J.C. for Henry Brome, 1670
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The word Justify therefore (as our writers do generally against the Papists maintain) is forense vocabulum, a term taken from Courts of Justice, and courses or cases of judicature, as appears plainly from Deut. 25. 1. 1 King. 8. 32. 2 Chron. 6. 23. Psal. 82. 3. Prov. 17. 15. Isaiah 5. 23. and 43. 9. And it is an act either of the Party himself questioned, or of his Advocate, or of the Jury, or of the Judge, or of them all. Of the Party himself, when he pleads not guilty, and stands upon his defence, as Paul doth, Act. 25. 8. of the Advocate, when he defends and maintains his Client to be not guilty, as the convert thief pleaded for Christ on the Cross, Luk. 23. 42. of the Jury, when they give in their verdict in behalf of the Party accused as not guilty, as the Pharisees did in the behalf of Paul, Act. 23. 9. of the Judge, when he pronounces him not guilty, and so clears and assoils him, as Pilate did Christ, Luk. 23. 14, 15. the Advocate justifies by pleading and defending as not faulty; the Judge by pronouncing and sentencing as such. and to Justify consequently, in a judiciary way, is to discharge from guilt of sin, or declare free from it, either by defence, as an Advocate, or by sentence, as a Judge.
The word Justifie therefore (as our writers do generallie against the Papists maintain) is forense vocabulum, a term taken from Courts of Justice, and courses or cases of judicature, as appears plainlie from Deut. 25. 1. 1 King. 8. 32