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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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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 Matth. 25. But it seems this Learned Doctor understands it only, By thy words thou shalt be absolved from the Maledictory Sentence of the Law, and by thy words contrarily condemned.
Luk. 18.14. The Publican [went down to his House justified rather than the other]; I think not ⟨p. 133⟩only [from the Maledictory Sentence of the Law of Innocency] but [by God approved a sincere Penitent], and so a fit Subject of the other part of Justification.