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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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50. How far those Divines who do use the phrase of Christs suffering in our person, do yet limit the sense in their exposition, and deny that we are reputed to have fulfilled the Law in Christ: because it is tedious to cite many, I shall take up now with one, even Mr. Lawson in his Theopolitica, which (though about the office of Faith he some-what differ from me) I must needs call an excellent Treatise, as I take the Author to be one of the most Knowing men yet living that I know.) Pardon me if I be large in transcribing his words.
Pag. 100, 101. [If we enquire of the manner how Righteousness and Life is derived from Christ, being one unto so many, it cannot be, except Christ be a general Head of mankind, and one Person with them, as Adam was. We do not read of any but two who were general Heads, and in some respect virtually, All mankind; the first and second Adam. 1— The principal cause of this Representation whereby he is one person with us, is the will of God, who as Lord made him such, and as Lawgiver and Judge did so account him. ⟨p. 72⟩But, 2. How far is he One person with us? Ans. 1. In general so far as it pleased God to make him so,2 and no further. 2. In particular, He and we are one so far 1. As to make him liable to the penalty of the Law for us. 2. So far as to free us from that obligation, and derive the benefit of his death to us. Though Christ be so far one with us as to be liable unto the penalty of the Law, and to suffer it, and upon this suffering we are freed; yet Christ is not the sinner, nor the sinner Christ. Christ is the Word made flesh, innocent without sin, an universal Priest and King: but we are none of these. Though we be accounted as one person in Law with him,3 by a Trope; yet in proper sense it cannot be said that in Christ's Satisfying we satisfied for our own sins. For then we should have been the Word made flesh, able to plead Innocency, &c. All which are false, impossible,