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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. Yea all the world must acknowledge that the whole Creation is quoad praesentiam & derivationem more dependant on God than the fruit is on the Tree, or the Tree on the Earth, and that God is the inseparate Cause of our Being, Station, and Life; ⟨p. 113⟩And yet this natural intimateness, and influx, and causality, maketh not GOD and every Creature absolutely or personally One.
2. Yea all the world must acknowledg that the whole Creation is quoad praesentiam & derivationem more dependant on God than the fruit is on the Tree, or the Tree on the Earth, and that God is the inseperate Cause of our Being, Station, and Life; ⟨p. 113⟩And yet this natural intimateness, and influx, and causality, maketh not GOD and every Creature absolutely or personally One.
3. It is agreed therefore that Christ's Righteousness is neither materially nor formally, any Accident of our natural Persons; (and an Accident it is) unless it can be reduced to that of Relation. 1. The Habits of our Person, cannot possibly be the habits of another inherently. 2. The actions of one cannot possibly be the actions of another, as the Agent, unless as that other as a principal Cause, acteth by the other as his Instrument or second Cause. 3. The same fundamentum relationis inherent in One Person, is not inherent in another if it be a personal Relation: And so the same individual Relation that is one Mans, cannot numerically be another Mans, by the same sort of in-being, propriety▪ or adherence. Two Brothers have a Relation in kind the same, but not unmerically.