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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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46. Because the words [Person] and [Personating] and [Representing] are ambiguous (as all humane language is,) while some use them in a stricter ⟨p. 68⟩sense than others do, we must try by other explicatory terms whether we agree in the matter, and not lay the stress of our Controversy upon the bare words. So some Divines say that Christ suffered in the Person of a sinner, when they mean not that he represented the Natural person of any one particular sinner; but that his own Person was reputed the Sponsor of sinners by God, and that he was judged a real sinner by his persecutors; and so suffered as if he had been a sinner.
46. Because the words [Person] and [Personating] and [Representing] are ambiguous (as all humane language is,) while some use them in a stricter ⟨p. 68⟩sense than others do, we must try by other explicatory terms whether we agree in the matter, and not lay the stress of our Controversy upon the bare words. So some Divines say that Christ suffered in the Person of a sinner, when they mean not that he represented the Natural person of any one particular sinner; but that his own Person was reputed the Sponsor of sinners by God, and that he was judged a real sinner by his persecuters; and so suffered as if he had been a sinner.
47. As Christ is less improperly said to have Represented our Persons in his satisfactory Sufferings, than in his personal perfect Holiness and Obedience; so he is less improperly said to have Represented all mankind as newly fallen in Adam, in a General sense, for the purchasing of the universal Gift of Pardon and Life, called, The new Covenant; than to have Represented in his perfect Holiness and his Sufferings, every Believer considered as from his first being to his Death. Though it is certain that he dyed for all their sins from first to last. For it is most true, 1. That Christ is as a second Adam, the Root of the Redeemed; And as we derive sin from Adam, so we derive life from Christ, (allowing the difference between a Natural and a Voluntary way of derivation.) And though no mans Person as a Person was actually existent and offended in Adam, (nor was by God reputed to have been and done) yet all mens Persons were Virtually and Seminally in Adam as is aforesaid; and when they are existent persons, they are no better either by Relative Innocency, or by Physical Disposition, than he could propagate: and are truly and justly reputed by God to be Persons Guilty of Adams fact, so far as they were by nature