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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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And it is certain, that the Law that Paul there speaketh of, was Moses Law: And that he is proving all along, that the observation of it was not necessary to the Gentiles, to their performance, or ⟨p. 142⟩Justification and Salvation, (necessitate praecepti vel medii); (for it would not justify the Jews themselves). And sure, 1. all his meaning is not, [The Law will not absolve Men from the sense of the Law]. But also its Works will give no one the just title of a Righteous Man, accepted of God, and saved by him, as judging between the Righteous and the wicked: (as Christ saith, Matth. 25. The Righteous shall go into Everlasting Life, &c.) 2. And if it were only the Maledictory Sentence of Moses Law, as such, that Paul speaketh of Absolution from, as our only Justification, then none but Jews and Proselytes who were under that Law, could have the Justification by Faith which he mentioneth; for it curseth none else: For what-ever the Law saith, it saith to them that are under the Law: The rest of the World were only under the Law of lapsed Nature, (the relicts of Adam's Law of Innocency) and the Curse for Adam's first Violation; and the Law of Grace made to Adam and Noah, and after perfected fuller by Christ in its second Edition.
And it is certain, that the Law that Paul there speaketh of, was Moses Law: And that he is proving all along, that the observation of it was not necessary to the Gentiles, to their performance, or ⟨p. 142⟩Justification and Salvation, (necessitate praecepti vel medii); (for it would not justifie the Jews themselves). And sure, 1. all his meaning is not, [The Law will not absolve Men from the sense of the Law]. But also its Works will give no one the just title of a Righteous Man, accepted of God, and saved by him, as judging between the Righteous and the wicked: (as Christ saith, Matth. 25. The Righteous shall go into Everlasting Life, &c.) 2. And if it were only the Maledictory Sentence of Moses Law, as such, that Paul speaketh of Absolution from, as our only Justification, then none but Jews and Proselites who were under that Law, could have the Justification by Faith which he mentioneth; for it curseth none else: For what-ever the Law saith, it saith to them that are under the Law: The rest of the World were only under the Law of lapsed Nature, (the relicts of Adam's Law of Innocency) and the Curse for Adam's first Violation; and the Law of Grace made to Adam and Noah, and after perfected fullier by Christ in its second Edition.