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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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§ 7. In this their Controversy, the point of Justification fell into frequent debate: But no Controversy ever arose between them, Whether Christ's personal Righteousness considered Materially or Formally, was by Imputation made ours as Proprietors of the thing it self, distinct from its effects; or, Whether God reputed us to have satisfied and also perfectly obeyed in Christ. For Augustine himself, while he vehemently defendeth free Grace, speaketh too little even of the Pardon of sin: And though he say, that Free Pardon of sins is part of Grace, yet he maketh Justification to be that which we call Sanctification, that makes us inherently Righteous or new-Creatures, by the operation of the Holy Ghost: And he thinketh that this is the Justification which Paul pleadeth to be of Grace and not of works; yet including Pardon of sin, and confessing that sometimes to Justify, signifieth in Scripture, not to make just, but to judg just. And though in it self this be but de nomine, and not de re; yet, 1. no doubt but as to many texts of Scripture Austin was mistaken, though some few texts Beza and others confess to be taken in his sense: 2. And the exposition of ⟨p. 11⟩many texts lieth upon it. But he that took Justification to be by the operation of the Holy Ghost giving us Love to God, could not take it to be by Imputation in the rigorous sense no question; nor doth de re.
§ 7. In this their Controversie, the point of Justification fell into frequent debate: But no Controversie ever arose between them, Whether Christ's personal Righteousness considered Materially or Formally, was by Imputation made ours as Proprietors of the thing it self, distinct from its effects; or, Whether God reputed us to have satisfied and also perfectly obeyed in Christ. For Augustine himself, while he vehemently defendeth free Grace, speaketh too little even of the Pardon of sin: And though he say, that Free Pardon of sins is part of Grace, yet he maketh Justification to be that which we call Sanctification, that makes us inherently Righteous or new-Creatures, by the operation of the Holy Ghost: And he thinketh that this is the Justification which Paul pleadeth to be of Grace and not of works; yet including Pardon of sin, and confessing that sometimes to Justifie, signifieth in Scripture, not to make just, but to judg just. And though in it self this be but de nomine, and not de re; yet, 1. no doubt but as to many texts of Scripture Austin was mistaken, though some few texts Beza and others confess to be taken in his sence: 2. And the exposition of