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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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12. No as being Actually such a Head to the Redeemed when he Obeyed and Suffered; but as a Head by Aptitude and Office, Power and Virtue, who was to become a Head actually to every one when they Believed and Consented; Being before a Head for them, and over those that did exist, but not a Head to them, in act.
13. Therefore they were not Christs members Political, (much less Natural) when he obeyed and died.
14. A Natural Head being but a part of a person, what it doth the Person doth. But seeing a Contracted Head, and all the members of his Body Contracted or Politic, are every one a distinct Person, it followeth not that each person did really or reputatively what the Head did. Nay it is a good consequence that [If he did it as Head, they did it not (numerically) as Head or Members.]
14. A Natural Head being but a part of a person, what it doth the Person doth. But seeing a Contracted Head, and all the members of his Body Contracted or Politick, are every one a distinct Person, it followeth not that each person did really or reputatively what the Head did. Nay it is a good consequence that [If he did it as Head, they did it not (numerically) as Head or Members.]