A26977:531
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. It is none till applied: Christ's Merits, or Legal Righteousness justify himself, but not us till applied: (Do you think otherwise, or do you wrangle against your self?) But I deny your Consequence: How prove you that it is none when applied therefore? Or the Cure is none when the Medicine is applied?
Answ. It is none till applyed: Christ's Merits, or Legal Righteousness justifie himself, but not us till applyed: (Do you think otherwise, or do you wrangle against your self?) But I deny your Consequence: How prove you that it is none when applyed therefore? Or the Cure is none when the Medicine is applyed?
Perhaps you'll say, That then our Personal Righteousness, and subordinate Justification, is ours before Christ's Righteousness, and so the greater dependeth on, and followeth the less.
Perhaps you'l say, That then our Personal Righteousness, and subordinate Justification, is ours before Christ's Righteousness, and so the greater dependeth on, and followeth the less.
Answ. 1. Christ's own Righteousness is before ours. 2. His Condition, Pardon to fallen Mankind is before ours. 3. This Gift being Conditional, excepteth the non-performance of the Condition; And the nature of a Condition, is to suspend the effect of the Donation till performed. 4. Therefore the performance goeth before the said Effect, and our Title. 5. But it is not therefore any cause of it, but a removal of the suspension; nor hath the Donation any other dependence on it. And is not all this beyond denial with Persons not studiously and learnedly misled?
Answ. 1. Christ's own Righteousness is before ours. 2. His Condition, Pardon to fallen Mankind is before ours. 3. This Gift being Conditional, excepteth the non-performance of the Condition; And the nature of a Condition, is to suspend the effect of the Donation till performed. 4. Therefore the performance goeth before the said Effect, and our Title. 5. But it is not therefore any cause of it, but a removal of the suspension; nor hath the Donation any other dependance on it. And is not all this beyond denial with Persons not studiously and learnedly misled?