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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.
1. That we are never justified, first or last, by Works of Innocency.
2. Nor by the Works of the Jewish Law (which Paul pleadeth against).
3. Nor by any Works of Merit, in point of Commutative Justice, or of distributive Governing Justice, according to either of those Laws (of Innocency, or Jewish).
4. Nor by any Works or Acts of Man, which are set against or instead of the least part of God's ⟨p. 161⟩Acts▪ Christ's Merits, or any of his part or honour.
5. Nor are we at first justified by any Evangelical Works of Love, Gratitude or Obedience to Christ, as Works are distinguished from our first Faith and Repentance.