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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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4. It introduceth a false sense and supposition of our sin imputed to Christ, as if Imputatively it were his as it is ours, even the sinful Habits, the sinful Acts, and the Relation of evil, Wicked, Ungodly and Unrighteous which resulteth from them: And so it maketh Christ really hated of God: For God cannot but hate any one whom he reputeth to be truly ungodly, a Hater of God, an Enemy to him, a Rebel, as we all were: whereas it was only the Guilt of Punishment, and not of Crime, as such that Christ assumed: He undertook to suffer in the room of sinners; and to be reputed one that had so undertaken; But not to be reputed really a sinner, an ungodly person, hater of God, one that had the Image of the Devil.
4. It introduceth a false sence and supposition of our sin imputed to Christ, as if Imputatively it were his as it is ours, even the sinful Habits, the sinful Acts, and the Relation of evil, Wicked, Ʋngodly and Ʋnrighteous which resulteth from them: And so it maketh Christ really hated of God: For God cannot but hate any one whom he reputeth to be truly ungodly, a Hater of God, an Enemy to him, a Rebel, as we all were: whereas it was only the Guilt of Punishment, and not of Crime, as such that Christ assumed: He undertook to suffer in the room of sinners; and to be reputed one that had so undertaken; But not to be reputed really a sinner, an ungodly person, hater of God, one that had the Image of the Devil.
5. Nay it maketh Christ to have been incomparably the worst man that ever was in the World by just reputation; and to have been by just imputation guilty of all the sins of all the Elect that ever lived, and reputed one of the Murderers of himself, and one of the Persecutors of his Church, or rather many: and the language that Luther used Catechrestically, to be strictly and properly true.
6. It supposeth a wrong sense of the Imputation of Adams sin to his posterity: As if we had been justly reputed persons existent in his person, and so in him to have been persons that committed the same sin; whereas we are only reputed to be now (not then) persons who have a Nature derived from him, which being then seminally only in him, deriveth by propagation an answerable Guilt of his sinful fact, together with natural Corruption.