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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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Object. 5. How can God accept him as just, who is really and reputedly a Sinner? This dishonoureth his Holiness and Justice.
Answ. Not so: Cannot God pardon sin, upon a valuable Merit and Satisfaction of a Mediator? And though he judg us not perfect now, and accept us not as such; yet 1. now he judgeth us Holy, 2. and the Members of a perfect Saviour; 3. and will make us perfect and spotless, and then so judg us, having washed us from our sins in the Blood of the Lamb.
Object. 6. Thus you make the Reatus Culpae, not pardoned at all, but only the Reatus Poenae.
Answ. 1. If by Reatus Culpae be meant the Relation of a Sinner as he is Revera Peccator, and so to be Reus, is to be Revera ipse qui peccavit; then we must consider what you mean by Pardon: For if you mean the nullifying of such a Guilt, (or Reality) it is impossible, because necessiate existentiae, he that hath once sinned, will be still the Person that sinned, while he is a Person, and the Relation of one that sinned will cleave to him: It will eternally be a true Proposition, [Peter and Paul did sin]; But if by Pardon you mean, the pardoning of all the penalty which for that sin is due, (damni vel sensus) so it is pardoned; and this is indeed the Reatus poenae: Not only the Penalty, but the Dueness of that Penalty, or the Obligation to it, is remitted and nullified.