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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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24. The false notion of God's strict imputing all our sins to Christ, and esteeming him the greatest sinner in the World, being so great a Blasphemy both against the Father and the Son, it is safest in such Controversies to hold to the plain and ordinary words of Scripture. And it is not the Wisdom nor Impartiality of some men, who greatly cry up the Scripture perfection, and decry the addition of a Ceremony or Form in the Worship of God; that yet think Religion is endangered, if our Confession use not the phrases of [God's Imputing our sin to Christ, and his Imputing Christ's Righteousness to us] when neither of them is in the Scripture; As if all God's Word were not big or perfect enough to make us a Creed or Confession in such phrases as it is fit for Christians to take up with▪ Countenancing the Papists, whose Faith is swelled to the many Volumes of the Councils, and no man can know how much more is to be added, and when we have all.
25. God doth not repute or account us to have suffered in our Natural persons what Christ suffered for us, nor Christ to have suffered in our Natural persons.
26. Though Christ suffered in our stead, and in a large sense, to certain uses and in some respects, as the Representer, or in the Persons of sinners; yet did he not so far represent their persons in his Habitual Holiness and Actual Obedience (no not in the Obedience of his Suffering,) as he did in the suffering it self. He obeyed not in the Person of a sinner, much less of millions of sinners; which were to say, In the person of sinners he never sinned. He suffered, to save us from suffering; but he obeyed not to save us from obeying, but to bring us to Obedience. Yet his Perfection of Obedience had this end, that perfect Obedience might not be necessary in us to our Justification and Salvation.
26. Though Christ suffered in our stead, and in a large sence, to certain uses and in some respects, as the Representer, or in the Persons of sinners; yet did he not so far represent their persons in his Habitual Holiness and Actual Obedience (no not in the Obedience of his Suffering,) as he did in the suffering it self. He obeyed not in the Person of a sinner, much less of millions of sinners; which were to say, In the person of sinners he never sinned. He suffered, to save us from suffering; but he obeyed not to save us from obeying, but to bring us to Obedience. Yet his Perfection of Obedience had this end, that perfect Obedience might not be necessary in us to our Justification and Salvation.