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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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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.
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 keept it. If we obeyed in his Person, we obeyed as Mediators, or Christ's, of which before.
6. But as is oft said, Christ our Mediator undertook in a middle Person to reconcile God and Man, (not by bringing God erroneously to judg that he or we were what we are not, or did what we did not, but) by being, doing, and suffering for us, that in his own Person, which should better answer God's Ends and Honour, than if we had done and suffered in our Persons, that hereby he might merit a free Gift of Pardon and Life (with himself) to be given by a Law of Grace to believing penitent Accepters. And so our Righteousness, as is oft opened, is a Relation resulting at once from all these Causes as fundamental to it, viz. Christ's Meritorious Righteousness, his free Gift thereupon, and our Relation to him as Covenanters or United Believers. And this is agreed on.