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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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§ 34. There are but three sorts of Causes; Efficient, Constitutive, and Final.
1. Christ is the efficient cause of all our Righteousness: (1. Of our Right to Pardon and Life; 2. And of our Gospel-Obedience:) And that many ways: 1. He is the Meritorious Cause: 2. He is the Donor by his Covenant; 3. And the Donor or Operator of our Inherent Righteousness by his Spirit: 4. And the moral efficient by his Word, Promise, Example, &c.
1. Christ is the efficient cause of all our Righteousness: (1. Of our Right to Pardon and Life; 2. And of our Gospel-Obedience:) And that many waies: 1. He is the Meritorious Cause: 2. He is the Donor by his Covenant; 3. And the Donor or Operator of our Inherent Righteousness by his Spirit: 4. And the moral efficient by his Word, Promise, Example, &c.
2. And Christ is partly the final cause.
3. But all the doubt is whether his personal Righteousness be the Constitutive Cause.