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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.
2. But for all this it followeth not that all Justification is only Legal, as Legal noteth its respect to the Law of Innocency: For 1. we are justified from or against che Accusation of being non-performers of the Condition of the Law of Grace; ⟨p. 155⟩2. And of being therefore unpardoned, and liable to its sorer Penalty. 3. Our particular subordinate Personal Righteousness consisting in the said performance of those Evangelical Conditions of Life, is so denominated from its conformity to the Law of Grace, (as it instituteth its own Condition) as the measure of it, (as Rectitudo ad Regulam). 4. Our Jus ad impunitatem & vitam, resulteth from the Donative Act of the Law or Covenant of Grace, as the Titulus qui est Fundamentum Juris, or supposition of our Faith as the Condition. 5. This Law of Grace is the Norma Judicis, by which we shall be judged at the Last Day. 6. The same Judg doth now per sententiam conceptam judg of us, as he will then judg per sententiam prolatam. 7. Therefore the Sentence being virtually in the Law, this same Law of Grace, which in primo instanti doth make us Righteous, (by Condonation and Donation of Right) doth in secundo instanti, virtually justify us as containing that regulating use, by which we are to be sententially justified. And now judg Reader, whether no Justification be Evangelical, or by the Law of Grace, and so to be denominated: (for it is lis de nomine that is by him managed). 8. Besides that the whole frame of Causes in the Work of Redemption, (the Redeemer, his Righteousness, Merits, Sacrifice, Pardoning Act, Intercession, &c.) are sure rather to be called Matters of the Gospel, than of the Law.
2. But for all this it followeth not that all Justification is only Legal, as Legal noteth its respect to the Law of Innocency: For 1. we are justified from or against che Accusation of being non-performers of the Condition of the Law of Grace; ⟨p. 155⟩2. And of being therefore unpardoned, and lyable to its sorer Penalty. 3. Our particular subordinate Personal Righteousness consisting in the said performance of those Evangelical Conditions of Life, is so denominated from its conformity to the Law of Grace, (as it instituteth its own Condition) as the measure of it, (as Rectitudo ad Regulam). 4. Our Jus ad impunitatem & vitam, resulteth from the Donative Act of the Law or Covenant of Grace, as the Titulus qui est Fundamentum Juris, or supposition of our Faith as the Condition. 5. This Law of Grace is the Norma Judicis, by which we shall be judged at the Last Day. 6. The same Judg doth now per sententiam conceptam judg of us, as he will then judg per sententiam prolatam. 7. Therefore the Sentence being virtually in the Law, this same Law of Grace, which in primo instanti doth make us Righteous, (by Condonation and Donation of Right) doth in secundo instanti, virtually justifie us as containing that regulating use, by which we are to be sententially justified. And now judg Reader, whether no Justification be Evangelical, or by the Law of Grace, and so to be denominated: (for it is lis de nomine that is by him managed). 8. Besides that the whole frame of Causes in the Work of Redemption, (the Redeemer, his Righteousness, Merits, Sacrifice, Pardoning Act, Intercession, &c.) are sure rather to be called Matters of the Gospel, than of the Law.