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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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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.
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 Mosaick 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 mortifie and save us from, but the Spirit doth.
Rom. 2.13. Not the Hearers of the Law are just before God, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified]. Is it only, The Doers shall be Absolved from the Maledictory Sentence, &c.? Or first and chiefly, They shall be judged well-doers, so far as they do well, and so approved and justified, so far as they do keep the Law? (which because no Man doth perfectly, and the Law of Innocency requireth Perfection, none can be justified absolutely, or to Salvation by it).
Object. The meaning is, (say some) The Doers of the Law should be justified by it; were there any such.