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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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7. Christ did perform much which no man else was bound to do: As to redeem Souls, to work his Miracles and the rest of the works, peculiar to the Mediator.
8. That Law which bound us to Suffering, (or made it our due) bound not Christ to it, (as being innocent); But he was bound to it by the Fathers Law of Mediator, and by his own voluntary sponsion.
9. The Law obliging every sinner himself to suffer, was not fulfilled by the Suffering of Christ our Sponsor: But only the Lawgiver satisfied by attaining its Ends. For neither the letter nor sense of it said, [If thou sin, thou or thy surety shall suffer.]
9. The Law obliging every sinner himself to suffer, was not fulfilled by the Suffering of Christ our Sponsor: But only the Lawgiver satisfied by attaining its Ends. For neither the letter nor sence of it said, [If thou sin, thou or thy surety shall suffer.]
10. Christ satisfied Justice and obeyed in Humane Nature, which also was Holy in him.