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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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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.
19. Christ did not suffer strictly, simply▪ absolutely, in the person of any one elect sinner, much less in the millions of persons of them all, in Law-sense, or in Gods esteem. God did not esteem Christ to be naturally, or as an absolute Representer, David, Manasseh, Paul, and every such other sinner, but only a Mediator that suffered in their stead.
19. Christ did not suffer strictly, simply▪ absolutely, in the person of any one elect sinner, much less in the millions of persons of them all, in Law-sence, or in Gods esteem. God did not esteem Christ to be naturally, or as an absolute Representer, David, Manasseh, Paul, and every such other sinner, but only a Mediator that suffered in their stead.
20. God did make Christ to be sin for us; that is, A Sacrifice for our sin, and one that by Man was reputed, and by God and Man was used, as sinners are, and deserve to be.