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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.
Briefly, 1. The foresaid Benefits of Christ's Righteousness, (Habitual, Active and Passive) as a Meritorious, Satisfactory, Purchasing Cause, are ours.
2. To say that the Benefits are Ours, importeth that the Causal Righteousness of Christ is related to us, and the Effects as such a Cause: and so is it self OURS, in that sense, that is, so related.
2. To say that the Benefits are Ours, importeth that the Causal Righteousness of Christ is related to us, and the Effects as such a Cause: and so is it self OƲRS, in that sense, that is, so related.
3. And Christ himself is OURS, as related to us as our Saviour; the Procurer and Giver of those Benefits. And do you mean any more by [OURS]?
3. And Christ himself is OƲRS, as related to us as our Saviour; the Procurer and Giver of those Benefits. And do you mean any more by [OƲRS]?
If you say that we deny any Benefits of Christ's Righteousness which you assert, name what they are. If you say that we deny any true Fundamentum juris, or reason of our title, name what that is. If you say that we deny any true Relation to Christ himself, tell us what it is: If you cannot, say that you are agreed.