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But it has had a contrary effect, since so many improve it into an objection. Therefore I will use it no more.” (I mean, the phrase imputed righteousness; that phrase, the imputed righteousness of Christ, I never did use.) “I will endeavour to use only such phrases as are strictly scriptural. And I will advise all my brethren, all who are in connexion with me throughout the three kingdoms, to lay aside that ambiguous, unscriptural phrase, (the imputed righteousness of Christ,) which is so liable to be misinterpreted, and speak in all instances, this in particular, as the oracles of God.” Of a two-fold Justification. My words cited as contradicting this, run thus: 28. “In the afternoon I was informed how many wise and learned men, who cannot in terms deny it, (because our Articles and Homilies are not yet repealed,) explain justifica tion by faith: They say, Justification is two-fold, the First in this life, the Second at the last day, &c. In opposition to this, I maintain, that the justification spoken of by St. Paul to the Romans, and in our Articles, is not two-fold; it is one, and no more.” (Remarks, page 388.) True. And where do I contradict this? Where do I say, the justifica tion spoken of by St. Paul to the Romans, and in our Articles, is any more than one? The question between them and me concerned this justification, and this only, which I affirmed to be but one. They averred, “But there is a second justification at the last day; therefore justification is not one only.” Without entering into that question, I replied, “The justification whereof St. Paul and our Articles speak, is one only.” And so I say still; and yet I do not deny that there is another justification (of which our Lord speaks) at the last day. I do not therefore condemn the distinction of a two-fold justification, in saying, That spoken of in our Articles is but one. And this is the thing which I affirmed, in “flat opposi tion to those men.” 29. But “how is it possible to encounter such a man as this, without watching him through every line? And there fore I wish my readers would closely compare the “Remarks’ with the “Review’ itself;” (I desire no more.