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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.
Answ. 1. No Man is justified by the Law of Innocency or Works, but Christ: Did I ever say that, [That Law justifieth us], who have voluminously wrote against it? If he would have his Reader think so, his unrighteousness is such as civility forbids me to give its proper Epithets to. If not, against what or whom is all this arguing?
2. I call it [Legal] as it is that perfect Righteousness of Christ our Surety, conform to the Law of Innocency; by which he was justified (though not absolved and pardoned): I call it [pro Legalis justitia], because that Law doth not justify us for it (but Christ only) but by it given us ad effecta by the New-Covenant; we are saved and justified from the Curse of that Law, or from Damnation, is certainly as if we had done it our selves: I call ⟨p. 167⟩Faith our Evangelical Righteousness, on the Reasons too oft mentioned. Now these may be called Two Justifications, or (rather) two parts of one, in several respects, as pleaseth the Speaker. And all such Word-Soldiers shall have their liberty without my Contradiction.
2. I call it [Legal] as it is that perfect Righteousness of Christ our Surety, conform to the Law of Innocency; by which he was justified (though not absolved and pardoned): I call it [pro Legalis justitia], because that Law doth not justifie us for it (but Christ only) but by it given us ad effecta by the New-Covenant; we are saved and justified from the Curse of that Law, or from Damnation, is certainly as if we had done it our selves: I call ⟨p. 167⟩Faith our Evangelical Righteousness, on the Reasons too oft mentioned. Now these may be called Two Justifications, or (rather) two parts of one, in several respects, as pleaseth the Speaker. And all such Word-Souldiers shall have their liberty without my Contradiction.