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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 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.
But if by [Person] you mean a certain State or Condition (as to be a subject of God, or one that is to suffer for sin) so Christ may be said to be the same person with us in specie, but not numerically; because that Accident whence his Personality is named, is not in the same subject.
§ 45. Quest. 6. Is Christs Righteousness imputed to us? Ans. Yes; If by imputing you mean reckoning or reputing it ours, so far as is aforesaid, that is such a Cause of ours.