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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	imputation_n	justification_n	righteousness_n	3,015	5	7.9076	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85389	Cretensis: or A briefe answer to an ulcerous treatise, lately published by Mr Thomas Edvvards, intituled Gangræna: calculated for the meridian of such passages in the said treatise, which relate to Mr. John Goodwin; but may without any sensible error indifferently serve for the whole tract. Wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer, called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied; / by the said John Goodvvin, a well-willer to the saints, in the work and patience of Jesus Christ. Published according to order.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1161; Thomason E328_22; ESTC R35707	46,594	52

with such particulars as concern my self and close with others of another aspect and relation First though hee doth not set my name in the margin against his 70th error p. 25. as he had done a little before in the same page against another yet his intent clearly enough was and I think himself will not deny it to arraigne the opinion held by me concerning the imputation of faith and non-imputation of Christs righteousnesse in justification in my Treatise upon that subject entituled Imputatio fidei for an error a Now how falsly and forgingly he represents the opinion appeares first in that hee fathers that mungrell expression {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} credere upon it onely because it is an expression ad invidiam comparata but no where used by me throughout the controversie yea p. 91. of the former part of that Treatise Sect. 3. I expresly deny that Faith justifieth as it is an act Secondly in that he makes this opinion to say That the righteousnesse of Christ is not imputed in justification Whereas I expresly affirm p. 54. of the second part of the Treatise that in a sense which I there explain as well the habituall holinesse of Christs person as the morall righteousnesse or active obedience of his life may be said to be imputed to those that beleeve in him And very often in the said Treatise upon occasion I declare in what sense I admit as well as in what sense I refuse the righteousnesse or active obedience of Christ in justification I suppose he is not himself a son of that profound ignorance as to hold that the righteousnesse of Christ as he calls it whether meaning his active or passive obedience or both is in every sense imaginable imputed in justification and yet it 's ill presuming of over-much understanding especially in the point of justification in him who going about to rectifie the mistakes of others shall himself affirm That the redemption and reconciliation purchased by Christ is the moving and meritorious cause of our justification and salvation and that the instrumental cause whereby the same is imputed is the bloud of Christ Of wch Atheologicall and putid assertions who would have thought that the great Aristarchus of the errors heresies of the times could have been the Author and Assertor had not Mistresse Gangraena in the margin of her 22. page betrayed him But if hee onely denying the imputation of Christs righteousnesse in justification in one sense but asserting it in another should be simply and indefinitly charged to deny it would think the charge base and unjust as indeed hee should have cause to doe hee himselfe must bow down his back to the same burden and bee content to be looked upon as a man of this basenesse untill hee hath made his atonement with God and men for it Ex ungue leonem You may by this one instance judge with what truth or honesty hee hath laid down the rest of the opinions in his Catalogue Well may he call them errors when once he hath lift up his pen upon them Forgery hath a mischievous omnipotency and is able to create what errors or heresies she pleaseth Again p. 45. he chargeth Mr. John Goodwin that in his point of justification he quotes Calvin Bucer and others who are known ex professo to be of another judgement Surely the man is not either so simple or free from the guilt of false speaking in this assertion as his words beare Doubtlesse he doth not intend to make it a matter of charge against a man in the handling of a controversie to quote Authors who are known ex professo to be of a judgement differing from his How many doth himselfe quote in his Gangrene upon as deplorable terms as these But the mans meaning is if he knew how to get it out that Mr. J. G in his point of justification quotes Calvin Bucer and others as being of the same judgement with him who are known ex professo to bee of another judgement If this be his sense and charge either he shewes himselfe to be a very illiterate man and not able to construe a peece of plain Latin or else charges Calvin Bucer the reft wth being of a judgment as contrary to themselves as to me If he can construe Latin let him confesse in English whether Calvin bee ex professe of a differing judgment from me in the point of justification in these passages following to omit very many others of the same import Quum autem justiciam in se repositam non habeant homines imputatione hane adipiscuntur quia Deus fidem illis fert acceptam pro justiciâ Calvin in Gal. 3. 6. And again Quare Abraham credendo nihil aliud quam oblatam sibi gratiam amplectitur ne irrita sit Si HOC illi imputatur in justiciam sequitur non aliter esse justum nisi quia Dei bonitate consisus omnia ab ipso sperare audet Calv. in Rom. 4. 3. FIDES REPVTATVR IN JVSTICIAM non quod ullum à nobis meritum afferat sed quia Dei bonitatem apprehendat Ibidem Yet again Quibus etiam verbis do●emur iusticiam Paulo nihil aliud esse quàm remissionem peccatorum Calvin Rom. 4. 6. Manet ergo salva nobis pulcherrima sententia iustificari hominem fide quia gratuita peccatorum remissione coram Deo purgatus sit Ibid. Abraham fidem habuit Iehova reputavit id ei iusticiam hoc est habuit ei pro iusticia HANC FIDEM Credendo igitur id accepit ut Deus eum pro iusto haberet Bucer Rom. 4. 3. I forbeare to English these passages because I desire to make an experiment upon Mr. Edwards whether he be able to doe it or no If he shall publickly acknowledge that he hath abused both me and himselfe and many more in charging me with quoting Authors for me who are known ex professo to be of another iudgement I shall conceive the better hopes of some competency of a Latin faculty in him but if he shal stand to avouch a charge of so palpable and manifest untruth to them that understand the Authors language a I professe ingenuously that I know no reason but to judge him uncapable of the English sense of a Latin sentence But whether Calvin Bucer and those other he speakes of quoted by me in my point of Justification be of the same judgement or no with me in the point let neither me nor he nor Mr Roborough be Judges for we very possibly may all be partiall but let us referre the decision to two sufficient men and without exception both for learning and integritie and knowledge of the case the one a foreine Divine some yeares since at rest with God never knowne to me the other a neighbour Minister indeed and of the Assembly it selfe but between whom and my selfe there was never any acquaintance beyond a casuall enterview and the exchange