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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Who would desire a sharper or a softer, a more dissenting or a more consenting Adversary? Very good: If then I mean it ex parte principii, I offend him not by asserting Evangelical Righteousness: The Controversy then will be only de nomine, whether it be congruous thus to call it. And really are his Names and Words put into our Creed, and become so necessary as to be worthy of all the stress that he layeth on them, and the calling up the Christian World to arrive by their Zeal against our Phrase? Must the Church be awakened to rise up against all those that will say with Christ, [By thy words thou shalt be justified]. And with James, [By Works a Man is justified, and not by Faith only], and [we are judged by the Law of Liberty], and as Christ, Joh. 5.22. [The Father judgeth no Man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son]; and that shall recite the 25th Chapter of Matthew.
Answ. Who would desire a sharper or a softer, a more dissenting or a more consenting Adversary? Very good: If then I mean it ex parte principii, I offend him not by asserting Evangelical Righteousness: The Controversie then will be only de nomine, whether it be congruous thus to call it. And really are his Names and Words put into our Creed, and become so necessary as to be worthy of all the stress that he layeth on them, and the calling up the Christian World to arrive by their Zeal against our Phrase? Must the Church be awakened to rise up against all those that will say with Christ, [By thy words thou shalt be justified]. And with James, [By Works a Man is justified, and not by Faith only], and [we are judged by the Law of Liberty], and as Christ, Joh. 5.22. [The Father judgeth no Man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son]; and that shall recite the 25th Chapter of Matthew.
Even now he said at once, [There is no Justification in foro Dei, but Absolution, &c. The Law of the Spirit of Life hath freed us, &c. Here is no ⟨p. 147⟩