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Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants…Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants…
Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sense [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false devised sense by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...Of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers in what sence [sic] sound Protestants hold it and of the false divised sence by which libertines subvert the Gospel : with an answer to some common objections, especially of Dr. Thomas Tully whose Justif. Paulina occasioneth the publication of this / by Richard Baxter a compassionate lamenter of the Church's wounds caused by hasty judging ... and by the theological wars which are hereby raised and managed ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons and Jonathan Robinson, 1675
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XVIII. The French Confession is more plain, § 18. ib. pag. 81. [We believe that our whole Righteousness lieth in the pardon of our sins; which is also as David witnesseth our only blessedness. Therefore all other reasons by which men think to be justified before God, we plainly reject; and all opinion of Merit being cast away; we rest only in the Obedience of Christ, which is Imputed to us, both that all our sins may be covered, and that we may get Grace before God.] So that Imputation of Obedience, they think is but for pardon of sin, and acceptance.
XVIII. The French Confession is more plain, § 18. ib. pag. 81. [We believe that our whole Righteousness lyeth in the pardon of our sins; which is also as David witnesseth our only blessedness. Therefore all other reasons by which men think to be justified before God, we plainly reject; and all opinion of Merit being cast away; we rest only in the Obedience of Christ, which is Imputed to us, both that all our sins may be covered, and that we may get Grace before God.] So that Imputation of Obedience, they think is but for pardon of sin, and acceptance.
Concerning Protestants Judgment of Imputation, it is further to be noted; 1. That they are not agreed whether Imputation of Christ's perfect Holiness and Obedience, be before or after the Imputation of his Passion in order of nature. Some think that our sins are first in order of nature done away by the Imputation of his sufferings, that we may be free from punishment; and next, that his perfection is Imputed to us, to merit the Reward of life eternal: But the most learned Confuters of the Papists ⟨p. 45⟩hold, that Imputation of Christs Obedience and Suffering together, are in order of nature before our Remission of sin and Acceptance, as the meritorious cause: And these can mean it in no other sense than that which I maintain. So doth Davenant de Just. hab. et act. & Pet. Molinaeus Thes. Sedan. Vol. 1. pag. 625. Imputatio justitiae Christi propter quam peccata remittuntur, & censemur justi coram Deo. Maresius Thes. Sedan. Vol. 2. pag. 770, 771. § 6 & 10. maketh the material cause of our Justification to be the Merits and Satisfaction of Christ, yea the Merit of his Satisfaction, and so maketh the formal Cause of Justification to be the Imputation of Christs Righteousness, or which is the same, the solemn Remission of all sins, and our free Acceptance with God. Note that he maketh Imputation to be the same thing with Remission and Acceptance; which is more than the former said.