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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So Paraeus in loc. Est novi faederis Sponsor Christus, quia novum faedus sanguine & morte sua obsignavit.
So the Dutch Annot. and many others, besides the Ancients, by a Sponsor, tell us is meant a Mediator.
And we grant that a Mediator is not of one, but doth somewhat on the behalf of both parties. But that as Mediator he Is; Hath, Doth, Suffereth, Meritteth, Satisfieth; so as the Representer or person of each believer, as that every such Person is supposed in Law to have Been, Done, Suffered, Merited, thus in and by the Mediator, is neither signified by this or any other text.
And we grant that a Mediator is not of one, but doth somewhat on the behalf of both parties. But that as Mediator he Is; Hath, Doth, Suffereth, Meritteth, Satisfyeth; so as the Representer or person of each believer, as that every such Person is supposed in Law to have Been, Done, Suffered, Merited, thus in and by the Mediator, is neither signified by this or any other text.
2. And they that distinguish of a Natural and Political Person, do but darken the case by an ill-expressed distinction, which indeed is not of two sorts of Persons, but between Reality and Acceptation, taking Person properly for a Natural Person: It's one thing to be such a Person, and another thing to have the Act, Passion, Merit, &c. Accepted for that other Person: And this latter signifieth, either 1. That it was done by the other person mediately, as being a chief Cause acting by his Instrument. 2. Or that it was done for that other Person by another. The first is our denied sense, and the second our affirmed sense.