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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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2. Others would have the word justify here to import nothing else but to pardon, to remit, to forgive sin, and consequently maintain justification to consist wholly and entirely in remission of sins. This divers Protestant writers stiffly maintain, among whom Piscator most directly and largely against Eglinus and Lucius, and Wotton in the second Book of the first part of his prolix Treatise of Justification.
2. Others would have the word justifie here to import nothing els but to pardon, to remit, to forgive sin, and conseqentlie maintain justification to consist wholie and entirelie in remission of sins. This divers Protestant writers stiffie maintain, among whom Piscator most directlie and largelie against Eglinus and Lucius, and Wotton in the second Book of the first part of his prolix Treatise of Justification.
And true it is, 1. that not only some of the Ancients seem so to say.
And tru it is, 1. that not onlie some of the Antients seem so to say.
And Bernard Epist. 190. Qid est ipsa (peccatorum remissio) nisi Justificatio? What is remission of sins it self, but justification? And many Orthodox Divines of later times are produced as speaking somewhat to the same purpose, (see Wotton of Justif. part. 1. lib. 2. cap. 3. 6.) who yet by their discourses elsewhere seem to have ben otherwise minded, however in eagerness of opposition to that Popish Tenet of justification by inherent righteousness, sometime they so speak: nor doth the exclusive particle used by them seem to intend any more then to debar and keep out the collation of grace inherent or the exercise of it from having ⟨p. 12⟩any place or office allowed them in the justification of a sinner, that which Bellarmine himself ingenuously acknowledgeth of Calvin, who is most of any quoted and urged by the Patrons of this Opinion as concurring therein with them. See Wotton where above, Chap. 4. throughout. And Bellarmine of justification, lib. 2. Chap. 1. Who also himself in his disputes concerning Penance, lib. 1. Cap. 10. hath let slip these words, the same with Bernards above, Qid est peccatorum remissio nisi justificatio? What is remission of sins but justification? and yet is far from holding justification to consist wholly and entirely in a bare remission of sins.