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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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2. I do differ from Mr. Lawson and Paraeus, and Ursine, and Olevian, and Scultetus and all that sort of worthy Divines in this; that whereas they make Christs Holiness and perfect Obedience to be but Justitia personae, necessary to make his Sacrifice spotless and so effectual: I think that of it self it is as directly the cause of our Pardon, Justification and Life, as Christs Passion is; The Passion being satisfactory ⟨p. 76⟩and so meritorious, and the personal Holiness Meritorious and so Satisfactory. For the truth is, The Law that condemned us▪ was not fulfilled by Christs suffering for us, but the Lawgiver satisfied instead of the fulfilling of it: And that Satisfaction lieth, in the substitution of that which as fully (or more) attaineth the ends of the Law as our own suffering would have done. Now the ends of the Law may be attained by immediate Merit of Perfection as well as by Suffering; but best by both. For 1. By the perfect Holiness and Obedience of Christ, the Holy and perfect will of God is pleased: whence [This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.] 2. In order to the ends of Government, Holiness and perfect Obedience, is honoured and freed from the contempt which sin would cast upon it; and the holiness of the Law in its Precepts is publicly honoured in this grand Exemplar; In whom only the will of God was done on Earth, as it is done in Heaven. And such a Specimen to the World is greatly conducible to the ends of Government: So that Christ voluntarily taking humane nature, which as such is obliged to this Perfection, He first highly merited of God the Father hereby, and this with his Suffering, went to attain the ends that our suffering should have attained, much better. So that at least as Meritorious, if not secondarily as satisfactory, I see not but Christs Holiness procureth the Justifying Covenant for us, equally with his Death. A Prince may pardon a Traitor for some noble service of his Friend, as well as for his suffering: much more for both. This way go Grotius de satisf. Mr. Bradshaw and others.
2. I do differ from Mr. Lawson and Paraeus, and Ʋrsine, and Olevian, and Scultetus and all that sort of worthy Divines in this; that whereas they make Christs Holiness and perfect Obedience to be but Justitia personae, necessary to make his Sacrifice spotless and so effectual: I think that of it self it is as directly the cause of our Pardon, Justification and Life, as Christs Passion is; The Passion being satisfactory