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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.
16. Christ may be said to suffer in the person of a sinner, as it meaneth his own person reputed and used as a sinner by his persecutors, and as he was one who stood before God as an Undertaker to suffer for Man's sin.
17. Christ suffered in the place and stead of sinners, that they might be delivered, though in the person of a Sponsor.
18. When we are agreed that the Person of the Sponsor, and of every particular sinner are divers; and that Christ had not suffered, if we had not sinned, and that he as a Sponsor suffered in our stead, and so bore the punishment, which not he, but we deserved ▪ If any will here instead of a Mediator or Sponsor call him our Representative, and say that he suffered even in all our Persons reputatively not simpliciter, but secunduùm quid, & in tantum only; that is, not representing our Persons simply and in all respects, and to all ends, but only so far as to be a sacrifice for our sins, and suffer in our place and stead what he suffered; we take this to be but lis de nomine, a question about the name and words: And we will not oppose any man that thinketh those words fittest, as long as we agree in the matter signified. And so many Protestant Divines say that Christ suffered in the person of every sinner, (at least Elect,) that is, so far only and to such effects.