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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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§ 35. The Constitutive Cause of natural bodily substances consisteth of Matter disposed, and Form. Relations have no Matter, but instead of Matter a Subject (and that is Our own persons here, and not Christ.) and a terminus and fundamentum.
§ 36. The Fundamentum may be called both the Efficient Cause of the Relation (as commonly it is) and the Matter from which it resulteth: And so Christs Righteousness is undoubtedly the Meritorious efficient Cause, and undoubtedly not the Formal Cause of our personal Relation of Righteousness: Therefore all the doubt is of the Material Cause.
§ 37. So that all the Controversy is come up to a bare name and Logical term, of which Logicians agree not as to the aptitude. All confess that Relations ⟨p. 86⟩have no proper Matter, besides the subject: all confess that the Fundamentum is loco efficientis, but whether it be a fit name to call it the Constitutive Matter of a Relation, there is no agreement.
§ 37. So that all the Controversie is come up to a bare name and Logical term, of which Logicians agree not as to the aptitude. All confess that Relations ⟨p. 86⟩have no proper Matter, besides the subject: all confess that the Fundamentum is loco efficientis, but whether it be a fit name to call it the Constitutive Matter of a Relation, there is no agreement.