A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.

Aphorism.

TO conclude, it is most clear in Scrip∣ture, * 1.1 and beyond all dispute, that our actual, most proper compleat Justification at the great Judgment, will be according to our Works, &c.

Animadvers.

1. This you oft repeat, and so must I this: That our Justi∣fication at the great Judgment, is but the full manifestation of that Justification which we have now through Faith.

2. Works shall then be enquired of but as fruits of Faith, by which Faith, and not by Works, we are now justified, and shall then fully a pear to be justified.

Reply.

1. It is such a Manifestation of our Righteousness by the Judg, as is the properest Justification; Apello tetum mundum jurisconsultorum & Theologorum Re∣formatorum. We maintain that the word is to be taken in sensu forensi against the Papists.

2. To be [a fruit of Faith] so considered, is not to be medium ad ullum finem. But sure Obedience is medium ad finem, and so enquired after. Either there is some end and reason why the fruits of Faith are enquired after, or else it is an unreasonable acti∣on (which who dare imagine?) Will you say with the Antinomians, that the end is only to manifest Faith ut signa? 1. You granted more before, that they are via ad regnum: And what Divine doth not grant, that Obedience is the Condition of Sal∣vation? Why then should you not yield, that as Con∣ditions, they are enquired after? 2. Luke's phrase, [Be∣cause

thou hast been faithful in a very little, &c.] must signifie at least a Conditionality, which is causa sine qua non; and not a mere sign. 3. The whole Context shews, that Obedience is enquired after, as the Ratio sententiae, and not only as signs of some∣thing else, which is the sole Reason. 4. The uses pretended for this enquiring after mere signs, are frivolous. The business of Judgment is to enquire of the cause, and to sentence the person accordingly; and the connexion of the Sentence to this Obedi∣ence, by the terms [Therefore] and [Because,] shews unquestionably, that it is ipsa causa that is here spoken of, and not signa de Causa. I take [Cause] in Law-sense now, and speak not de Causa Lo∣gica.

Notes

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  Pag. 317.