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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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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.
6. It supposeth a wrong sence 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.
7. It supposeth us to be Justifiable and Justified by the Law of Innocency, made to Adam, as it saith [Obey perfectly and Live.] As if we fulfilled it by Christ: which is not only an addition to the Scripture, but a Contradiction. For it is only the Law or Covenant of Grace that we are Justified by.