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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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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 ⟨p. 141⟩Man such. 4. Not defending or proving him to be such. 5. Nor judging him such decisively. 6. Nor using him as such. 7. Nor as justifying a Man so far as he is Innocent and Just against all false Accusation of Satan or the World.
2. Nay, he hath chosen only these Texts where the word [Justification] or [Justifie] 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 ⟨p. 141⟩Man such. 4. Not defending or proving him to be such. 5. Nor judging him such decisively. 6. Nor using him as such. 7. Nor as justifying a Man so far as he is Innocent and Just against all false Accusation of Satan or the World.
3. The first Text cited by him, Rom. 8.24. downright contradicts him: Not only Augustine, but divers Protestant Expositors suppose, that by the Law of the Spirit of Life is meant, either the quickening Spirit it self given to us that are in Christ, or the Gospel, as it giveth that Spirit into us; And that by delivering us from the Law of Sin, is meant either from that sin which is as a Law within us, or Moses Law, as it forbiddeth and commandeth all its peculiarities, and so maketh doing or not doing them sin; and as it declareth sin, yea, and accidentally irritateth it: Yea, that by the Law of Death is meant, not only that Law we are cursed by, and so guilty, but chiefly that Law, as it is said