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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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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.
Acts 13.39. is the Text that speaketh most in the sense he mentioneth; And yet I think it includeth more, viz. By Christ, 1. we are not only absolved from that Condemnation due for our sins; 2. but also we are by his repealing or ending of the Mosaic Law justified against the Charge of Guilt for our not observing it; and 3. Augustine would add, That we are by Christ's Spirit and Grace made just (that is, sincerely Godly) by the destruction of those inherent and adherent sins, which the Law of Moses could not mortify and save us from, but the Spirit doth.