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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.
5. Yet it is commonly agreed, that Christ's Righteousness is OURS in some sense; And so far is justly reputed Ours, or imputed to us as being Ours.
5. Yet it is commonly agreed, that Christ's Righteousness is OƲRS in some sense; And so far is justly reputed Ours, or imputed to us as being Ours.
6. And this ambiguous syllable [OURS] (enough to set another Age of Wranglers into bitter Church-tearing strife, if not hindered by some that will call them to explain an ambiguous word) is it that must be understood to end this Controversy. Propriety is the thing signified. 1. In the strictest sense that is called Ours, which inhereth in ⟨p. 114⟩us, or that which is done by us. 2. In a larger (Moral) sense, that which a Man as the principal Cause, doth by another as his Instrument, by authorizing, commanding, persuading, &c. 3. In a yet larger sense that may be called OURS, which a third person doth partly instead of what we should have done (had, or suffered) and partly for our use, or benefit. 4. In a yet larger sense that may be called OURS, which another hath, or doth, or suffereth for our Benefit, (though not in our stead) and which will be for our good, (as that which a Friend or Father hath, is his Friends or Child's, and all things are Ours, whether Paul, or &c. and the Godly are owners of the World, in as much as God will use all for their good).
6. And this ambiguous syallable [OƲRS] (enough to set another Age of Wranglers into bitter Church-tearing strife, if not hindred by some that will call them to explain an ambiguous word) is it that must be understood to end this Controversie. Propriety is the thing signified. 1. In the strictest sense that is called Ours, which inhereth in ⟨p. 114⟩us, or that which is done by us. 2. In a larger (Moral) sense, that which a Man as the principal Cause, doth by another as his Instrument, by authorizing, commanding, perswading, &c. 3. In a yet larger sense that may be called OƲRS, which a third person doth partly instead of what we should have done (had, or suffered) and partly for our use, or benefit. 4. In a yet larger sense that may be called OƲRS, which another hath, or doth, or suffereth for our Benefit, (though not in our stead) and which will be for our good, (as that which a Friend or Father hath, is his Friends or Childs, and all things are Ours, whether Paul, or &c. and the Godly are owners of the World, in as much as God will use all for their good).