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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. Our Persons were not naturally, seminally, and virtually in Christ's Person (any further than he is Creator and Cause of all things) as they were in Adams.
3. Therefore we derive not Righteousness from him by Generation, but by his voluntary Donation or Contract.
4. As he became not our Natural Parent, so our Persons not being in Christ when he obeyed, are not reputed to have been in him naturally, or to have obeyed in and by him.
5. If Christ and we are reputed one Person, either he obeyed in our Person, or we in his, or both. If he obeyed as a Reputed Sinner in the Person of each Sinner, his Obedience could not be meritorious, according to the Law of Innocency, which required sinless Perfection; And he being supposed ⟨p. 125⟩to have broken the Law in our Persons, could not so be supposed to kept it. If we obeyed in his Person, we obeyed as Mediators, or Christ's, of which before.