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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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Job 25.4. How then can Man be justified with God? or, How can he be clean that is born of a Woman? Is the sense, [How can Man be absolved from the Maledictory Sentence of the Law?] Or rather, [How can he be maintained Innocent?]
Psal. 143.2. In thy sight shall no Man living be justified. Is the sense, [No Man living shall be absolved from the Maledictory sentence of the Law? Than we are all lost for ever: Or rather no Man shall be found and maintained Innocent, and judged one that deserved not punishment]; (Therefore we are not judged perfect fulfillers of that Law by another or our selves).
Object. But this is for us and against you: for it denieth that there is any such Justification.
Object. But this is for us and against you: for it denyeth that there is any such Justification.
Answ. Is our Controversie de re, or only de nomine, of the sense of the word Justifie? If de re, then his meaning is to maintain, That God never doth judg a Believer to be a Believer, or a Godly Man to be Godly, or a performer of the Condition of Pardon and Life to have performed it, nor will justify any believing Saint against the false Accusations, that he is an Infidel, a wicked ungodly Man, and an Hypocrite, (or else he writeth against those that he understood not). But if the Question be (as it must be) de nomine, whether the word Justify have any sense besides that which he appropriateth to it, then a Proposition that denieth the Existentiam rei, may confute his denial of any other sense of the word.