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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. And indeed at the day of Judgment, the Question to be decided, will not be, Whether Christ dyed and did his part, but, Whether we believed and obeyed him and did our part: Not, Whether Christ performed his Covenant with the Father; but, Whether we performed our Covenant with him: For it is not Christ that is to be judged, but we by Christ.
§ 6. But Pelagius and Augustine disputing about the Power of Nature and Freewill and the Grace of Christ, began to make it a matter of great Ingenuity (as Erasmus speaketh) to be a Christian. Pelagius (a Britain, of great wit, and continence, and a good and sober life, as Austin saith, Epist. 120.) stiffly defended the Power of Nature and Freewill, and made Grace to consist only in the free Pardon of all sin through Christ, and in the Doctrine and Persuasions only to a holy life for the time to come, with Gods common ordinary help. Augustine copiously ⟨p. 10⟩(and justly) defended God's special eternal Election of some, and his special Grace given them to make them repent and believe, and persevere: (For though he maintained that some that were true Believers, Lovers of God, Justified and in a state of Salvation, did fall away and perish, yet he held that none of the Elect did fall away and perish; And he maintained that even the Justified that fell away, had their Faith by a special Grace above nature.) Vid. August. de bono Persever. Cap. 8. & 9. & de Cor. & Grat. Cap. 8, & 9. & alibi passim.
§ 6. But Pelagius and Augustine disputing about the Power of Nature and Freewill and the Grace of Christ, began to make it a matter of great Ingenuity (as Erasmus speaketh) to be a Christian. Pelagius (a Brittain, of great wit, and continence, and a good and sober life, as Austin saith, Epist. 120.) stifly defended the Power of Nature and Freewill, and made Grace to consist only in the free Pardon of all sin through Christ, and in the Doctrine and Perswasions only to a holy life for the time to come, with Gods common ordinary help. Augustine copiously ⟨p. 10⟩(and justly) defended God's special eternal Election of some, and his special Grace given them to make them repent and believe, and presevere: (For though he maintained that some that were true Believers, Lovers of God, Justified and in a state of Salvation, did fall away and perish, yet he held that none of the Elect did fall away and perish; And he maintained that even the Justified that fell away, had their Faith by a special Grace above nature.) Vid. August. de bono Persever. Cap. 8. & 9. & de Cor. & Grat. Cap. 8, & 9. & alibi passim.