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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.
There must be somewhat more than the bare name [Greek or Hebrew] once used of Christ as Mediator of Gods Covenant, or the name of a Surety as now used among men, that must go to prove that the Mediator and the several sinners are the same Legal Persons in Gods account.
There must be somewhat more than the bare name 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 once used of Christ as Mediator of Gods Covenant, or the name of a Surety as now used among men, that must go to prove that the Mediator and the several sinners are the same Legal Persons in Gods account.
But seeing Legal-Personality is but a Relation of our Natural person, to another Natural person, that we may not quarrel and tear the Church when really ⟨p. 112⟩we differ not 1. Let our agreement be noted. 2. Our difference intelligibly stated.
1. It is granted (not only by Dr. Tully, but others that accurately handle the Controversy,) 1. That Christ and the Believer never were nor are our Natural person; and that no union with him maketh us to be Christ, or God, nor him to be Peter, John, or Paul, &c. That we know of no third sort of Natural person, (which is neither Jesus, nor Peter, John, &c.) But composed of both united, which is constituted by our Union. For though it be agreed on, that the same Spirit that is in Christ is (operatively) also in all his Members, and that therefore our Communion with him is more than Relative, and that from this Real-Communion, the name of a Real-Union may be used; yet here the Real-Union is not Personal (as the same Sun quickeneth and illuminateth a Bird and a Frog and a Plant, and yet maketh them not our person:) Therefore he that will say we are Physically one with Christ, and not only Relatively; but tell us [ONE What?] and make his words Intelligible; and must deny that we are ONE PERSON: and that by that time we are not like to be found differing. But remember that while Physical Communion, is confessed by all, what UNION we shall from thence be said to have (this Foundation being agreed on) is like to prove but a question, de realitione & nomine.