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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
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.
The plain truth in all this is within the reach of every sound Christian, and self-conceited wranglers make difficulties where there are none. Yea, how far the Papists themselves grant the Protestant doctrine of Imputation, let the following words of Vasseur on Bellarmine be judg. [Bellarm. ait; Si solum vellent haeretici nobis imputari Merita Christi, quia nobis donata sunt, & possumus ea Deo Patri offerre pro peccatis nostris, quoniam Christus suscepit super see onus satisfaciendi pro nobis, nosque Deo Patri reconciliandi, recta esset eorum Sententia: I doubt some will say, it is false, because Bellarmine granteth it; but Vasseur addeth [Haec ille: sed an nostra longe abest ab illâ, quam in nobis requireret sententia.] And I wish the Reader that loveth Truth and Peace ⟨p. 47⟩to read the words of Pighius, Cassander, Bellarmine, &c. saying as the Protestants, cited by Joh. Crocius de Justificat. Disput. 9. pag. 458. &c. And of Morton Apolog especially Tho. Waldensis.
The plain truth in all this is within the reach of every sound Christian, and self-conceited wranglers make difficulties where there are none. Yea, how far the Papists themselves grant the Protestant doctrine of Imputation, let the following words of Vasseur on Bellarmine be judg. [Bellarm. ait; Si solum vellent haeretici nobis imputari Merita Christi, quia nobis donata sunt, & possumus ea Deo Patri offerre pro peccatis nostris, quoniam Christus suscepit super se onus satisfaciendi pro nobis, nosque Deo Patri reconciliandi, recta esset eorum Sententia: I doubt some will say, it is false, because Bellarmine granteth it; but Vasseur addeth [Haec ille: sed an nostra longe abest ab illâ, quam in nobis requireret sententia.] And I wish the Reader that loveth Truth and Peace ⟨p. 47⟩to read the words of Pighius, Cassander, Bellarmine, &c. saying as the Protestants, cited by Joh. Crocius de Justificat. Disput. 9. pag. 458. &c. And of Morton Apolog especially Tho. Waldensis.
Nazianzen's sentence prefixed by the great Basil-Doctors to their Confession, I do affectionately recite, [Sacred Theology and Religion is a simple and naked thing; consisting of Divine Testimonies without any great artifice: which yet some do naughtily turn into a most difficult Art.