A26923:988
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.
Ans. Perhaps both, if they both hold the same sound Doctrine under various Phrases: And perhaps neither, if by their various Phrases, each mean something that is unsound.
§. 18. They heinously err, who deny Christ's Righteousness to be so far imputed to us, as to be reputed the meritorious Cause of our Pardon and Right to Life (or our Justification) performed by our Mediator, as the Sponsor of the New Covenant, (for our sakes, and his Sufferings in our stead) as is afore-expressed.
§. 19. And they heinously err, and subvert the Gospel, who say, that Christ's Righteousness is so imputed to us, as that God reputeth, or judgeth Christ to have been perfectly holy and righteous (or obedient) and to have suffered, though not in the Natural, yet in the Legal or Civil Person of the Sinner or Believer, as their strict and proper Representer; and reputeth us to have been perfectly holy, righteous, or obedient in Christ, as our Representer, and so to have our selves fulfilled all righteousness in and by him, and in him to have satisfied Justice, and merited Eternal Life, and Christ's Righteousness to be ours in the same sense of Propriety, as it was his own: For his Divine Righteousness is the Essence of God, and his Humane his Habits, Acts, and Relations, which are the Accidents of his own Person only as the Subject, and cannot be in another (as is after showed.)
§. 19. And they heinously err, and subvert the Gospel, who say, that Christ's Righteousness is so imputed to us, as that God reputeth, or judgeth Christ to have been perfectly holy and righteous (or obedient) and to have suffered, though not in the Natural, yet in the Legal or Civil Person of the Sinner or Believer, as their strict and proper Representer; and reputeth us to have been perfectly holy, righteous, or obedient in Christ, as our Representer, and so to have our selves fulfilled all righteousness in and by him, and in him to have satisfied Justice, and meried Eternal Life, and Christ's Righteousness to be ours in the same sence of Propriety, as it was his own: For his Divine Righteousness is the Essence of God, and his Humane his Habits, Acts, and Relations, which are the Accidents of his own Person only as the Subject, and cannot be in another (as is after shewed.)