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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.
Answ. 1. I have told you before that it is confessed to be Ours; but that this syllable OURS hath many senses; and I have told you in what sense, ⟨p. 119⟩and how far it is OURS, and in that sense we are justified by it, and it is truly imputed to us, or reputed or reckoned as OURS: But not in their sense that claim a strict Propriety in the same numerical Habits, Acts, Sufferings, Merits, Satisfaction, which was in Christ, or done by him, as if they did become Subjects of the same Accidents; or, as if they did it by an instrumental second Cause. But it is OURS, as being done by a Mediator, instead of what we should have done, and as the Meritorious Cause of all our Righteousness and Benefits, which are freely given us for the sake hereof.
Answ. 1. I have told you before that it is confessed to be Ours; but that this syllable OƲRS hath many senses; and I have told you in what sense, ⟨p. 119⟩and how far it is OƲRS, and in that sense we are justified by it, and it is truly imputed to us, or reputed or reckoned as OƲRS: But not in their sense that claim a strict Propriety in the same numerical Habits, Acts, Sufferings, Merits, Satisfaction, which was in Christ, or done by him, as if they did become Subjects of the same Accidents; or, as if they did it by an instrumental second Cause. But it is OƲRS, as being done by a Mediator, instead of what we should have done, and as the Meritorious Cause of all our Righteousness and Benefits, which are freely given us for the sake hereof.
2. He that is made Righteousness to us, is also made Wisdom, Sanctification and Redemption to us: but that sub genere Causae Efficientis, non autem Causae Constitutivae: We are the Subjects of the same numerical Wisdom and Holiness which is in Christ. Plainly the Question is, Whether Christ or his Righteousness, Holiness, Merits, and Satisfaction, be Our Righteousness Constitutively, or only Efficiently? The Matter and Form of Christ's Personal Righteousness is OURS, as an Efficient Cause, but it is neither the nearest Matter, or the Form of that Righteousness which is OURS as the Subjects of it; that is, It is not a Constitutive Cause nextly material, or formal of it.