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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. But he is as unhappy in his Proofs, as in his singular untrue Assertion: [Rom. 8.2, 4. The Law of the Spirit of Life, hath freed us from the Law of Sin and of Death. Gal. 3.13. God sent his Son, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us; Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law; and many more such: Here is no mention of any but one legal Justification].
§. 3. But he is as unhappy in his Proofs, as in his singular untrue Assertion: [Rom. 8.2, 4. The Law of the Spirit of Life, hath freed us from the Law of Sin and of Death. Gal. 3.13. God sent his Son, thta the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us; Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law; and many more such: Here is no mention of any but one legal Justification].
Answ. 1. Reader, do you believe that these two Texts are a perfect Enumeration. And that if these mention but one sense or sort of Justification, that it will follow that no more is mentioned in Scripture: Or if many hundred other Texts have the same sense?
2. Nay, he hath chosen only these Texts where the word [Justification] or [Justify] is not at all found. By which I may suppose that he intendeth the Controversie here de re, and not de nomine. And is that so? Can any Man that ever considerately opened the Bible, believe that de re no such Thing is mentioned in Scripture. 1. As making a Man a believing Godly Man. 2. Or as performing the Conditions of Life required of us in the Covenant of Grace. 3. Nor esteeming a