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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. 5. But indeed his very Description by Absolution is utterly ambiguous: 1. Absolution is either by Actual Pardon, by the Law or Covenant of Grace; which giveth us our Right to Impunity: 2. Or by Sentence of the Judg, who publicly decideth our Case, and declareth our Right determinatively: Or by execution of that Sentence in actual delivering us from penalty; And who knoweth which of these he meaneth? This is but confusion, to describe by an unexplained equivocal word.
Answ. 5. But indeed his very Description by Absolution is utterly ambiguous: 1. Absolution is either by Actual Pardon, by the Law or Covenant of Grace; which giveth us our Right to Impunity: 2. Or by Sentence of the Judg, who publickly decideth our Case, and declareth our Right determinatively: Or by execution of that Sentence in actual delivering us from penalty; And who knoweth which of these he meaneth? This is but confusion, to describe by an unexplained equivocal word.
And who knoweth what Law he meaneth, whose Maledictory Sentence Justification absolveth us from? Doth he think that the Law of Innocency, and of Moses, and the Law of Grace are all one, which Scripture so frequently distinguisheth? Or that each of them hath not its Malediction? If he deny this, I refer him to my full proof of it, to Mr. Cartwright and elsewhere. If not, we should know whether he mean all, or which.
3. And what he meaneth by the Sentence of the Law is uncertain: Whether it be the Laws Commination, as obliging us to punishment, which is not a Sentence in the usual proper sense, but only a virtual Sentence, that is, the Norma Judicis; or whether he mean the Sentence of God as Judg, according to the Law: which is not the Sentence of the Law ⟨p. 138⟩properly, but of the Judg: It's more intelligible speaking, and distinct, that must edify us, and end those Controversies which ambiguities and confusion bred and feed.