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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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3. And when will he prove that these two Sorts, or Parts, or Acts, may not be at once transacted at the same Bar? Must there needs be one Court to try whether I am a true Believer, or an Infidel, or Hypocrite; and another to judg that being such, I am to be justified against all Guilt and Curse, by virtue of Christ's Merits and Intercession? Why may not these two parts of one Man's Cause be judged at the same Bar? And why must your Pupils be taught so to conceive of so great a business, in it self so plain?
3. And when will he prove that these two Sorts, or Parts, or Acts, may not be at once transacted at the same Bar? Must there needs be one Court to try whether I am a true Believer, or an Infidel, or Hypocrite; and another to judg that being such, I am to be justified against all Guilt and Curse, by vertue of Christ's Merits and Intercession? Why may not these two parts of one Man's Cause be judged at the same Bar? And why must your Pupils be taught so to conceive of so great a business, in it self so plain?
§. 11. He proceedeth, [The Use of this Evangelical▪ Justification is made to be, that we may be made partakers of the Legal Justification out of us, in Christ: And so our Justification applieth another Justification, and our Remission of sins another.
§. 11. He proceedeth, [The Ʋse of this Evangelical▪ Justification is made to be, that we may be made partakers of the Legal Justification out of us, in Christ: And so our Justification applyeth another Justification, and our Remission of sins another.
Answ. No Sir; but our particular subordinate sort of Righteousness, consisting in the performance of the Conditions of the free Gift, (viz. a believing suitable Acceptance) is really our Dispositio receptiva, being the Condition of our Title to that Pardon and Glory, which for Christ's Righteousness if freely given us. And our personal Faith and Sincerity must be justified, and we in tantum, before our Right to Christ, Pardon and Life can be justified in foro.