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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. 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.
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 justifie 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 Justifie have any sense besides that which he appropriateth to it, then a Proposition that denieth the Existentiam rei, may confute his denyal of any other sense of the word.
So Isa. 43.9, 26. Let them bring forth their Witnesses that they may justified: Declare thou that thou mayest be justified; that is, proved Innocent.
But I hope he will hear and reverence the Son; Matth. 12.37. By thy words thou shalt be Justified, and by thy words thou shalt be Condemned] (speaking of Gods Judgment) which I think meaneth (de re & nomine) Thy Righteous or unrighteous words shall be a part of the Cause of the day, or Matter, for or according to which, thou shalt be judged obedient or disobedient to the Law of Grace, and so far just or unjust, and accordingly sentenced to Heaven or Hell, as is described