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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. 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.
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 OƲRS, as an Efficient Cause, but it is neither the nearest Matter, or the Form of that Righteousness which is OƲRS as the Subjects of it; that is, It is not a Constitutive Cause nextly material, or formal of it.
3. If our Union with Christ were Personal, (making us the same Person) then doubtless the Accidents of his Person would be the Accidents of ours, and so not only Christ's Righteousness, but every Christians would be each of Ours: But that is not so. Nor is it so given us by him.
Object. 4. You do seem to suppose that we have none of that kind of Righteousness at all, which consisteth in perfect Obedience and Holiness, but only a Right to Impunity and Life, with an imperfect Inherent Righteousness in our selves: The Papists are forced to confess, that a Righteousness we must have which consisteth in a conformity to the preceptive part of the Law, and not only the Retributive part: But they say, It is in our selves, and we say it is Christ's imputed to us.