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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.
8. And here it is agreed; 1. That we are before Conversion or Faith related to Christ as part of the Redeemed World, of whom it is said, 2 Cor. 5.19. That God was in Christ, reconciling the World to himself, not imputing to them their sins, &c. 2. That we are after Faith related to Christ as his Covenanted People, Subjects, Brethren, Friends, and Political Members; yea, as such that have Right to, and Possession of Real Communion with him by his Spirit: And that we have then Right to Pardon, Justification, and Adoption, (or have ⟨p. 115⟩Right to Impunity in the promised degree, and to the Spirits Grace, and the Love of God, and Heavenly Glory). This Relation to Christ and this Right, to the Benefits of his Righteousness are agreed on: And consequently that his Righteousness is OURS, and so may be called, as far as the foresaid Relations and Rights import.
8. And here it is agreed; 1. That we are before Conversion or Faith related to Christ as part of the Redeemed World, of whom it is said, 2 Cor. 5.19. That God was in Christ, reconciling the World to himself, not imputing to them their sins, &c. 2. That we are after Faith related to Christ as his Covenanted People, Subjects, Brethren, Friends, and Political Members; yea, as such that have Right to, and Possession of Real Communion with him by his Spirit: And that we have then Right to Pardon, Justification, and Adoption, (or have ⟨p. 115⟩Right to Impunity in the promised degree, and to the Spirits Grace, and the Love of God, and Heavenly Glory). This Relation to Christ and this Right, to the Benefits of his Righteousness are agreed on: And consequently that his Righteousness is OƲRS, and so may be called, as far as the foresaid Relations and Rights import.
II. Now a Relation (as Ockam hath fully proved) having no real entity, beside the quid absolutum, which is the Subject, Fundamentum, or Terminus, he that yet raileth at his Brother as not saying enough, or not being herein so wise as he, and will maintain that yet Christ's Righteousness is further OURS, must name the Fundamentum of that Right or Propriety: What more is it that you mean? I think the make-bates have here little probability of fetching any more Fuel to their Fire, or turning Christ's Gospel into an occasion of strife and mutual enmity, if they will but be driven to a distinct explication, and will not make confusion and ambiguous words their defence and weapons. If you set your quarrelsome Brains on work, and study as hard as you can for matter of Contention, it will not be easy for you to find it, unless you will raze out the names of Popery, Socinianism, Arminianism, or Solifidianism, Heresy, &c. instead of real Difference. But if the angriest and loudest Speakers be in the right, Bedlam and Billingsgate may be the most Orthodox places.