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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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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.
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 edifie us, and end those Controversies which ambiguities and confusion bred and feed.
Answ. 6. But which-ever he meaneth, most certainly it is not true that the Scripture mentioneth no other Justification in foro Dei. For many of the fore-cited Texts tell us, that it oft mentioneth a Justification, which is no Absolution from the Maledictory Sentence, (neither of the Law of Innocency, of Moses, or of Grace) but a Justification of a Man's innocency in tantum, or quoad Causam hanc particularem, Viz.
1. Sometimes a Justifying the Righteous Man against the slanders of the World, or of his Enemies.