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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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III. But his [Quia Terminatur in satisfactione Legi praestanda]. I confess it is a Sentence not very intelligible or edifying to me. 1. Satisfactio proprie & strict sic dicta differ• à solutione ejusdem quod sit,solutio aequivalentis alias indebite: Which of these he meaneth, Satisfaction thus strictly taken, or solutio ejusdem, I know not: Nor know what it is that he meaneth by Legi praestandâ: Indeed solutio ejusdem is Legi praestanda, but not praestita by us (personally or by another): For we neither kept the Law, nor bare the full Penalty; And ⟨p. 151⟩the Law mentioned no Vicarium Obedientiae aut p•enae; Christ performed the Law, as it obliged himself as Mediator, and as a Subject, but not as it obliged us; for it obliged us to Personal performance only: And Christ by bearing that Punishment (in some respects) which we deserved, satisfied the Law-giver, (who had power to take a Commutation) but not the Law: unless speaking improperly you will say that the Law is satisfied, when the remote ends of the Law-giver and Law are obtained. For the Law hath but one fixed sense, and may be it self changed, but changeth not it self, nor accepteth a tantundem: And Christ's suffering for us, was a fulfilling of the Law, which peculiarly bound him to suffer, and not a Satisfaction loco solutionis ejusdem: And it was no fulfilling the Penal part of the Law as it bound us to suffer: For so it bound none but us; so that the Law as binding us to Duty or Suffering, was neither fulfilled, nor strictly satisfied by Christ; but the Law-giver satisfied, and the remote ends of the Law attained, by Christ's perfect fulfilling all that Law which bound himself as Mediator.
III. But his [Quia Terminatur in satisfactione Legi praestanda]. I confess it is a Sentence not very intelligible or edifying to me. 1. Satisfactio proprie & stricte sic dicta differ• à solutione ejusdem quod sit,solutio aequivalentis alias indebite: Which of these he meaneth, Satisfaction thus strictly taken, or solutio ejusdem, I know not: Nor know what it is that he meaneth by Legi praestandâ: Indeed solutio ejusdem is Legi praestanda, but not praestita by us (personally or by another): For we neither kept the Law, nor bare the full Penalty; And ⟨p. 151⟩