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,…

And Christ merited Life for us by his Perfection, (not in our persons, but in •e person of a Mediator,) which Life was to be given to us by the said covenant: The antecedent benefits (such as the Covenant it self) he •veth absolutely, and antecedently to any act of ours. God reputeth all his Satisfaction and Merit of Christ to be as meet and effectual to procure us all these Benefits, to be thus given, as if we our selves had done and offered: And in this sense Christ's Righteousness is given us, and made ours, •••• that it is given for us, and we have the said benefits of it: Not that God doth give us the very habits of Holiness which were in Christ, nor •he transient acts which he performed, nor the very Sufferings which he underwent, nor the Relation of righteous satisfactory and meritorious, as •••• was that numerical Relation which immediately resulted from Christ's •wn Habits, Acts and Sufferings; For such a translation of accidents is •••• contradiction. But God giving us all the effects, or Salvation merited, •n it self properly, is said also not unfitly to give us the Merit or Righteousness which procured them; that is, as it was paid to God for us, to ⟨p. 64⟩procure them; even as he is said to give Christ himself (antecedently •• our Faith) to the World as a Saviour. And thus Christ's Righteousness, Merit and satisfaction may be said to be imputed to us, in that it •• thus given us, and thus truly reputed ours.

And •hrist merited Life for us by his Perfection, (not in our persons, but in •e person of a Mediator,) which Life was to be given to us by the said •ovenant: The antecedent benefits (such as the Covenant it self) he •veth absolutely, and antecedently to any act of ours. God reputeth all his Satisfaction and Merit of Christ to be as meet and effectual to proure us all these Benefits, to be thus given, as if we our selves had done and ffered: And in this sense Christ's Righteousness is given us, and made ours, that it is given for us, and we have the said benefits of it: Not that God doth give us the very habits of Holiness which were in Christ, nor he transient acts which he performed, nor the very Sufferings which he nderwent, nor the Relation of righteous satisfactory and meritorious, as was that numerical Relation which immediately resulted from Christ's wn Habits, Acts and Sufferings; For such a translation of accidents is contradiction. But God giving us all the effects, or Salvation merited, n it self properly, is said also not unfitly to give us the Merit or Righteousness which procured them; that is, as it was paid to God for us, to