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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. The meaning is, (say some) The Doers of the Law should be justified by it; were there any such.
Answ. That's true, of absolute Justification unto Life: But that this is not all the sense of the Text, the two next Verses show, where the Gentiles are pronounced partakers of some of that which he meaneth inclusively in doing to Justification: Therefore ⟨p. 134⟩it must include that their Actions and Persons are so far justified, (more or less) as they are Doers of the Law, as being so far actively just.
Answ. That's true, of absolute Justification unto Life: But that this is not all the sense of the Text, the two next Verses shew, where the Gentiles are pronounced partakers of some of that which he meaneth inclusively in doing to Justification: Therefore ⟨p. 134⟩it must include that their Actions and Persons are so far justified, (more or less) as they are Doers of the Law, as being so far actively just.
Rom. 8.30. Whom he justified, them he also glorified; And 1 Cor. 6. •• ▪ Ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Many Protestants, and among them Bez• himself, expound (in the Papists and Austins sense of Justification) as including Sanctification also, as well as Absolution from the Curse: And so Arch Bishop Usher told me he understood them. As also