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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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§ 2. But in Paul's own days, there were somethings in his Epistles which the unlearned and unstable did wrest, as they did the other Scriptures, to their own destruction, as Peter tells us, 2 Pet. 2. And it seemeth by the Epistle of James, that this was part of it: For he is fain there earnestly to dispute against some, who thought that Faith without Christian works themselves, would justify, and flatly affirmeth, that we are Justified by Works, and not by Faith only; that is, as it is a Practical Faith, in which is contained a Consent or Covenant to obey, which first putteth us into a justified state; so it is that Practical Faith actually working by Love, and the actual performance of our Covenant, which by way of Condition is necessary to our Justification, as Continued and as Consummate by the Sentence of Judgment. Against which sentence of James there is not a syllable to be found in Paul. But all the Scripture agreeth that all men shall be Judged, that is, Justified or Condemned, according to their works. But it is not this Controversy (between Faith and ⟨p. 8⟩Works) which I am now to speak to, having done it enough heretofore.
§ 2. But in Paul's own days, there were somethings in his Epistles which the unlearned and unstable did wrest, as they did the other Scriptures, to their own destruction, as Peter tells us, 2 Pet. 2. And it seemeth by the Epistle of James, that this was part of it: For he is fain there earnestly to dispute against some, who thought that Faith without Christian works themselves, would justifie, and flatly affirmeth, that we are Justified by Works, and not by Faith only; that is, as it is a Practical Faith, in which is contained a Consent or Covenant to obey, which first putteth us into a justified state; so it is that Practical Faith actually working by Love, and the actual performance of our Covenant, which by way of Condition is necessary to our Justification, as Continued and as Consummate by the Sentence of Judgment. Against which sentence of James there is not a syllable to be found in Paul. But all the Scripture agreeth that all men shall be Judged, that is, Justified or Condemned, according to their works. But it is not this Controversie (between Faith and ⟨p. 8⟩