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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. 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.
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 cheif Cause acting by his Instrument. 2. Or that it was done for that other Person by another. The first is our denyed sence, and the second our affirmed sence.
Among us Sureties and Sponsors are of several sorts: Grotius de Jure Belli tells you of another sense of Sponsion in the Civil Law, than is pertinent to the objectors use: And in Baptism the same word, hath had divers senses as used by persons of different intentions. The time was when the Sponsor was not at all taken for the Political Person (as you call it) of Parent or Child, nor spake as their Instrument, in their name: But was a Third person, ⟨p. 110⟩who (because many parents Apostatized, and more Died in the Child's minority) did pass his word, 1. That the Parent was a credible Person, 2. That if he Dyed so soon or Apostatized, he himself would undertake the Christian Education of the Child. But the Parent himself was Sponsor for the Child in a stricter sense, (as also Adopting Pro-parents were, & as some take God-fathers to be now,) that is, they were taken for such, whose Reason, will and word, we authorised to dispose of the Child as obligingly, as if it had been done by his own reason will and word, so be it, it were but For his good, and the Child did own it when he came to age: And so they were to speak as in the Child's name, as if Nature or Charity made them his Representers, in the Judgment of many. (Though others rather think that they were to speak as in their own persons, e. g. I dedicate this Child to God, and enter him into the Covenant as obliged by my Consent.) But this sense of Sponsion is nothing to the present Case.