A26923:981
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 11. That which we are yet disagreed about, is the Names and Notions following: As, 1. What is meant by the Phrase of [Imputing] in several Texts of Scripture; as Rom. 4. 11. [That righteousness might be imputed (or reckoned) to them also.] Ans. The words seem to me to have no difficulty, but what men by wrangling put into them. To have righteousness imputed to them, is to be reputed, judged, or accounted as righteous ⟨p. 259⟩Men, and so used (the cause being not in the Phrase it self, but fore-described.)
§. 11. That which we are yet disagreed about, is the Names and Notions following: As, 1. What is meant by the Phrase of [Imputing] in several Texts of Scripture; as Rom. 4. 11. [That righteousness might be imputed (or reckoned) to them also.] Ans. The words seem to me to have no difficulty, but what men by wrangling put into them. To have righteousness impu•ed to them, is to be reputed, judged, or accounted as righteous ⟨p. 259⟩Men, and so used (the cause being not in the Phras• it self, but fore-described.)
§. 12. So what is meant, Rom. 4. 6. by imputing righteousness without works? Ans. Plainly, reputing, or judging a man righteous without the works which Paul there meaneth.