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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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§ 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.
§ 38. And if there were, it would not decide this Verbal Controversy: For 1. Titulus est fundamentum Juris: The fundamentum of our Right to Impunity and Life in and with Christ, is the Donative act of our Saviour in and by his Law or Covenant of Grace: that is our Title; And from that our Relation resulteth, the Conditio tituli vel juris being found in our selves. 2. And our Relation of Performers of that Condition of the Law of Grace, resulteth from our own performance as the fundamentum (compared to the Rule.) So that both these parts of our Righteousness have a nearer fundamentum than Christs personal Righteousness.
§ 38. And if there were, it would not decide this Verbal Controversie: For 1. Titulus est fundamentum Juris: The fundamentum of our Right to Impunity and Life in and with Christ, is the Donative act of our Saviour in and by his Law or Covenant of Grace: that is our Title; And from that our Relation resulteth, the Conditio tituli vel juris being found in our selves. 2. And our Relation of Performers of that Condition of the Law of Grace, resulteth from our own performance as the fundamentum (compared to the Rule.) So that both these parts of our Righteousness have a nearer fundamentum than Christs personal Righteousness.