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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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§ 47. Quest. 8. Is it Christs Divine, Habitual, Active or Passive Righteousness which Justifieth us? Ans. All: viz, the Habitual, Active and Passive exalted in Meritoriousness by Union with the Divine.
§ 48. Quest. 9. Is it Christs Righteousness, or our Faith which is said to be imputed to us for Righteousness? Rom. 4. Ans. 1. The text speaketh of imputing Faith, and by Faith is meant Faith, and not Christs Righteousness in the word: But that Faith is Faith in Christ and his Righteousness; and the Object is quasi materia actus, and covenanted.
2. De re, both are Imputed: that is, 1. Christs Righteousness is reputed the meritorious, Cause. 2. The free-gift (by the Covenant) is reputed the fundamentum juris (both opposed to our Legal Merit.) 3. And our Faith is reputed the Conditio tituli, and all that is required in us to our Justification, as making us Qualified Recipients of the free-Gift merited by Christ.
§ 49. Quest. 10. Are we any way Justified by our own performed Righteousness? Ans. Yes; Against the charge of non-performance, (as Infidels, Impenitent, Unholy,) and so as being uncapable of the free-gift of Pardon and Life in Christ.