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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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4. All this and such Speeches would persuade the Reader that this Learned Disputer thinketh that I took and use the word [Legal] generally as of that which is related to any Law in genere, and so take Evangelical contrarily for that which is related to no Law: whereas I over and over tell him, that (speaking in the usual Language that I may be understood) I take [Legal] specially (and not generally) for that Righteousness, which is related to the Law of Works or Innocency, (not as if we had indeed such a Righteousness as that Law will justify us for; But a pro-Legal-Righteousness, one instead of it, in and by our perfect Saviour, which shall effectually save us from that Laws condemnation): And that by [Evangelical Righteousness], I mean, that which is related to the Law of Grace, as the Rule of Judgment, upon the just pleading whereof that Law will not condemn but justify us. If he knew this to be my meaning, in my weak judgment, he should not have written either as if he ⟨p. 145⟩did not, or as if he would persuade his Readers to the contrary: For Truth is most congruously, defended by Truth: But if he knew it not, I despair of becoming intelligible to him, by any thing that I can write, and I shall expect that this Reply be wholly lost to him and worse.
4. All this and such Speeches would perswade the Reader that this Learned Disputer thinketh that I took and use the word [Legal] generally as of that which is related to any Law in genere, and so take Evangelical contrarily for that which is related to no Law: whereas I over and over tell him, that (speaking in the usual Language that I may be understood) I take [Legal] specially (and not generally) for that Righteousness, which is related to the Law of Works or Innocency, (not as if we had indeed such a Righteousness as that Law will justifie us for; But a pro-Legal-Righteousness, one instead of it, in and by our perfect Saviour, which shall effectually save us from that Laws condemnation): And that by [Evangelical Righteousness], I mean, that which is related to the Law of Grace, as the Rule of Judgment, upon the just pleading whereof that Law will not condemn but justifie us. If he knew this to be my meaning, in my weak judgment, he should not have written either as if he ⟨p. 145⟩did not, or as if he would perswade his Rsaders to the contrary: For Truth is most congruously, defended by Truth: But if he knew it not, I despair of becoming intelligible to him, by any thing that I can write, and I shall expect that this Reply be wholly lost to him and worse.