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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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§ 42. Quest. 3. Is Christs Righteousness OURS as it was or is His own, with the same sort of propriety? Ans. No.
§ 42. Quest. 3. Is Christs Righteousness OƲRS as it was or is His own, with the same sort of propriety? Ans. No.
§ 43. Quest. 4. Is the formal Relation of Righteous as an accident of our persons, numerically the same Righteousness? Ans. No; It is impossible: Unless we are the same person.
§ 44. Quest. 5. Is Christ and each Believer one political person? Ans. A political person is an equivocal word: If you take it for an Office (as the King or Judg is a political person) I say, No: If for a Society, Yea ▪ But noxia & noxa caput sequuntur: True Guilt is an accident of natural persons, and of Societies only as constituted of such; and so is Righteousness; Though Physically Good or Evil may for society-sake, befall us without personal desert or consent.
§ 44. Quest. 5. Is Christ and each Believer one political person? Ans. A political person is an equivocal word: If you take it for an Office (as the King or Judg is a political person) I say, No: If for a Society, Yea ▪ But noxia & noxa caput sequuntur: True Guilt is an accident of natural persons, and of Societies only as constituted of such; and so is Righteousness; Though Physically Good or Evil may for society-sake, befal us without personal desert or consent.