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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. I. The History of the Controversy.
CHAP. I. The History of the Controversie.
§ 1. IN the Gospel it self we have first Christ's Doctrine delivered by his own mouth. And in that there is so little said of this Subject that I find few that will pretend thence to resolve the Controversy, for Imputation in the rigorous sense. The same I say of the Acts of the Apostles, and all the rest of the New Testament, except Pauls Epistles.
§ 1. IN the Gospel it self we have first Christ's Doctrine delivered by his own mouth. And in that there is so little said of this Subject that I find few that will pretend thence to resolve the Controversie, for Imputation in the rigorous sence. The same I say of the Acts of the Apostles, and all the rest of the New Testament, except Pauls Epistles.
The Apostle Paul, having to do with the Jews, who could not digest the equalizing of the Gentiles with them, and specially with the factious Jewish Christians, who thought the Gentiles must become Proselytes to Moses as well as to Christ, if they would be Justified and Saved, at large confuteth this opinion, and freeth the Consciences of the Gentile Christians from the Imposition of this yoke (as also did all the Apostles, Act. 15.) And in his arguing, ⟨p. 7⟩proveth that the Mosaical Law is so far from being necessary to the Justification of the Gentiles, that Abraham and the Godly Jews themselves were not Justified by it, but by Faith ▪ And that by the works of it (and consequently not by the works of the Law or Covenant of Innocency, which no man ever kept) no man could ever be justified: And therefore that they were to look for Justification by Christ alone, and by Faith in him, or by mere Christianity; which the Gentiles might have as well as the Jews, the Partition-wall being taken down. This briefly is the true scope of Paul in these Controversies.