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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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Answ. 1. We must first understand how far Adam's sin is ours: And first I have elsewhere proved that our Covenant-Union and Interest supposeth our Natural Union and Interest; and that it is an adding to God's Word and Covenant, to say, That he covenanted that Adam should personate each one of his Posterity in God's imputation or account, any further than they were naturally in him; and so that his innocency or sin should be reputed theirs, as far as if they had been personally the Subjects and Agents. The Person of Peter never was in Reality or God's Reputation, the Person of Adam. (Nor Adam's Person the Person of Peter): But Peter being virtually and seminally in Adam, when he sinned, his Person is derived from Adam's Person: And so Peter's Guilt is not numerically the same with Adams, but the Accident of another Subject, and therefore another Accident, derived with the Person from Adam (and from nearer Parents). The Fundamentum of that Relation (of Guilt) is the Natural Relation of the Person to Adam, (and so it is Relatio in Relation fundata). The Fundamentum of that natural Relation, is Generation, yea a series of Generations from Adam to that Person: And Adam's Generation being the Communication of a Guilty Nature with personality to his Sons and Daughters, is the fundamentum next following his personal Fault and Guilt charged on him by the Law: So that here is a long series of efficient Causes, bringing down from Adam's Person and Guilt a distinct numerical Person and Guilt of every one of his later Posterity.
Answ. 1. We must first understand how far Adam's sin is ours: And first I have elsewhere proved that our Covenant-Ʋnion and Interest supposeth our Natural Ʋnion and Interest; and that it is an adding to God's Word and Covenant, to say, That he covenanted that Adam should personate each one of his Posterity in God's imputation or account, any further than they were naturally in him; and so that his innocency or sin should be reputed theirs, as far as if they had been personally the Subjects and Agents. The Person of Peter never was in Reality or God's Reputation, the Person of Adam. (Nor Adam's Person the Person of Peter): But Peter being virtually and seminally in Adam, when he sinned, his Person is derived from Adam's Person: And so Peter's Guilt is not numerically the same with Adams, but the Accident of another Subject, and therefore another Accident, derived with the Person from Adam (and from nearer Parents). The Fundamentum of that Relation (of Guilt) is the Natural Relation of the Person to Adam, (and so it is Relatio in Relatione fundata). The Fundamentum of that natural Relation, is Generation, yea a series of Generations from Adam to that Person: And Adam's Generation being the Communication of a Guilty Nature with personality to his Sons and Daughters, is the fundamentum next following his personal Fault and Guilt charged on him by the Law: So that here is a long series of efficient Causes, bringing down from Adam's Person and Guilt a distinct numerical Person and Guilt of every one of his later Posterity.