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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.
His Liberavit nos à Lege Mortis, I before showed impertinent to his use, Is Liberare & Justificare, or Satisfacere all one? And is à Lege Mortis, either from all the Obligation to Obedience, or from the sole malediction? There be other Acts of Liberation besides Satisfaction: For it is [The Law of the Spirit of Life] that doth it: And we are freed both from the power of indwelling-sin, (called a Law) and from the Mosaical Yoke, and from the Impossible Conditions of the Law of Innocency, though not from its bare Obligation to future Duty.
His Liberavit nos à Lege Mortis, I before shewed impertinent to his use, Is Liberare & Justificare, or Satisfacere all one? And is à Lege Mortis, either from all the Obligation to Obedience, or from the sole mal•diction? There be other Acts of Liberation besides Satisfaction: For it is [The Law of the Spirit of Life] that doth it: And we are freed both from the power of indwelling-sin, (called a Law) and from the Mosaical Yoak, and from the Impossible Conditions of the Law of Innocency, though not from its bare Obligation to future Duty.
§. 7. He addeth a Third, Ex parte Medii, quod est Justitia Christi Legalis nobis per fidem Imputata: Omnem itaque Justificationem proprie Legalem esse constat.
Answ. 1. When I read that he will have but one sense or sort of Justification, will yet have the Denomination to be ex termino, and so justifieth my distinction of it, according to the various Termini; And here how he maketh the Righteousness of Christ to be but the MEDIUM of our Justification, (though he should have told us which sort of Medium he meaneth) he seemeth to me a very favourable consenting Adversary: And I doubt those Divines who maintain that Christ's Righteousness is the Causa Formalis of our Justification, (who are no small ones, nor a few, though other in answer to the Papists disclaim it) yea, and those that make it