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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
57. The Disputes whether it be Christ's Divine, his habitual, his active, or his passive Righteousness, that is made ours to our Justification, seemeth to be but the Off-spring of the error of the undue sense of Christ's personating or representing us in his Righteousness: And the parcelling out the uses and effects, (that one is imputed to us instead of habitual Righteousness, another instead of actual, and the third pardoneth our Sins,) is from the same false supposition. (It's well that they suppose not that his Divine Righteousness is imputed to our deification.) But the case is plain, 1. That Christ's whole Humane Righteousness, habitual, active and passive, are meritorious for us, (not as being the very same things, all which we should have done, and suffered, and had; as if we had, did and suffered them our selves by one that had, did and suffered them in our persons (in a Law-sense.) But as being the parts of that one Righteousness of Christ as Mediator, which consisteth in the full performance of the Law of Redemption, or of his own Covenant with his Father, undertaken for our sakes. Having been, and done, and suffered what he promised, he is Righteous.
2. And his Divine Righteousness, by virtue of the hypostatical Union, dignifieth his Humane to its meritorious value.
58. By his Satisfaction or Sacrifice, and this Merit, Christ did procure all that Pardon, Life and Benefits, whatsoever that consequently are given us of God: And so is the true meritorious cause of all.