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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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Concerning, what I have said before, some may Object, 1. That there is no such thing as our Justification notified before the Angels in Heaven. 2. That the Sententia Concepta is God's Immanent Acts, and therefore Eternal.
Answ. To the first, I say, 1. It is certain by Luk. 15.10. that the Angels know of the Conversion of a Sinner, and therefore of his Justification and publicly Rejoice therein. Therefore it is notified to them. 2. But I refer the Reader for this, to what I have said to Mr. Tombs in my Disputation of Justification, where I do give my thoughts, That this is not the Justification by Faith meant by Paul, as Mr. Tombs asserteth it to be.
Answ. To the first, I say, 1. It is certain by Luk. 15.10. that the Angels know of the Conversion of a Sinner, and therefore of his Justification and publickly Rejoyce therein. Therefore it is notified to them. 2. But I refer the Reader for this, to what I have said to Mr. Tombes in my Disputation of Justification, where I do give my thoughts, That this is not the Justification by Faith meant by Paul, as Mr. Tombes asserteth it to be.
To the Second, I say, Too many have abused Theology, by the misconceiving of the distinction of Immanent and Transient Acts of God, taking all for Immanent which effect nothing ad extra. But none are properly Immanent quoad Objectum, but such as God himself is the Object of, (as see intelligere, see amare): An Act may be called indeed immanent in any of these three respects; 1. Ex parte Agentis; 2. Ex parte Objecti; 3. Ex parte effectus. 1. Ex parte agentis, all God's Acts are Immanent, for they are his Essence. 2. Ex parte Objecti vel Termini, God's Judging a Man Just or Unjust, Good or Bad, is transient; because it is denominated from the state of the Terminus or Object: And so it may be various and mutable denominatively, notwithstanding God's Simplicity and Immutability. And so the Sententia Concepta is not ab Aeterno. 3. As to the Effect, all confess God's Acts to be Transient and Temporary. But there are some that effect not (as to judg a thing to be what it is).