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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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Obj. A Stone may be sinless, and yet not righteous nor have Right to life.
Ans. True: because it is not a capable subject. But a man cannot be sinless, but he is Righteous, and hath right to life by Covenant.
Obj. But not to punish is one thing and to Reward is another?
Ans. They are distinct formal Relations and Notions: ⟨p. 99⟩But where felicity is a Gift and called a Reward only for the terms and order of Collation, and where Innocency is the same with perfect Duty, and is the title-Condition; there to be punished is to be denied the Gift, and to be Rewarded is to have that Gift as qualified persons: and not to Reward, is materially to punish; and to be reputed innocent is to be reputed a Meriter. And it is impossible that the most Innocent man can have any thing from God, but by way of free-Gift as to the Thing in Value; however it may be merited in point of Governing Paternal Justice as to the Order of donation.