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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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4. But the Truth which this Objection intimateth, we all agree in, viz. That the Mediator perfectly kept the Law of Innocency, that the keeping of that Law might not be necessary to our Salvation, ⟨p. 129⟩(and so such Righteousness necessary in our selves) but that we might be pardoned for want of perfect Innocency, and be saved upon our sincere keeping of the Law of Grace, because the Law of Innocency was kept by our Mediator, and thereby the Grace of the New-Covenant merited, and by it Christ, Pardon, Spirit and Life, by him freely given to Believers.
Object. 10. The same Person may be really a sinner in himself, and yet perfectly innocent in Christ, and by imputation.
Answ. Remember that you suppose here the Person and Subject to be the same Man: And then that the two contrary Relations of perfect Innocency, or guiltlessness, and guilt of any, (yea much sin) can be consistent in him, is a gross contradiction. Indeed he may be guilty, and not guilty in several partial respects; but a perfection of guiltlessness excludeth all guilt. But we are guilty of many a sin after Conversion, and need a Pardon. All that you should say is this, We are sinners our selves, but we have a Mediator that sinned not, who merited Pardon and Heaven for sinners.
Answ. Remember that you suppose here the Person and Subject to be the same Man: And then that the two contrary Relations of perfect Innocency, or guiltlesness, and guilt of any, (yea much sin) can be consistent in him, is a gross contradiction. Indeed he may be guilty, and not guilty in several partial respects; but a perfection of guiltlesness excludeth all guilt. But we are guilty of many a sin after Conversion, and need a Pardon. All that you should say is this, We are sinners our selves, but we have a Mediator that sinned not, who merited Pardon and Heaven for sinners.