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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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CHAP. IV. The Reasons of our denying the fore-described rigid sense of Imputation.
CHAP. IV. The Reasons of our denying the fore-described rigid sence of Imputation.
Though it were most accurate to reduce what we deny to several Propositions, and to confute each one argumentatively by it self, yet I shall now choose to avoid such prolixity; and for brevity and the satisfaction of such as look more at the force of a Reason, than the form of the Argument, I shall thrust together our denied Sense, with the manifold Reasons of our denial.
Though it were most accurate to reduce what we deny to several Propositions, and to confute each one argumentatively by it self, yet I shall now choose to avoid such prolixity; and for brevity and the satisfaction of such as look more at the force of a Reason, than the form of the Argument, I shall thrust together our denyed Sence, with the manifold Reasons of our denyal.
WE deny, that God doth so Impute Christs Righteousness to us, as to repute or account us to have been Holy with all that Habitual Holiness which was in Christ, or to have done all that he did in obedience to his Father, or in fulfilling the Law, or to have suffered all that he suffered, and to have made God satisfaction for our own sins, and merited our own Salvation and Justification, in and by Christ; or that he was, did and suffered, and merited, all this strictly in the person of every sinner that is saved; Or that Christs very individual Righteousness Material or Formal, is so made ours in a strict sense, as that we are Proprietors, Subjects, or Agents of the ⟨p. 90⟩very thing it self simply and absolutely, as it is distinct from the effects; or that Christs Individual Formal Righteousness, is made our Formal Personal Righteousness; or that as to the effects, we have any such Righteousness Imputed to us, as formally ours, which consisteth in a perfect Habitual and Actual Conformity to the Law of Innocency; that is, that we are reputed perfectly Holy and sinless, and such as shall be Justified by the Law of Innocency, which saith, Perfectly Obey and Live, or sin and die.] All this we deny.