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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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The second Opinion which he reciteth is this, [That God the Father accepteth the sufferings and merits of his Son, as a valuable consideration, on which he will wholly forgive and acquit the Offenders, and receive them into his favour, and give them the addition of a more excellent happiness, so they will but receive his Son on the terms expressed in the Gospel.
And as distinct from theirs, who would thus have the Passive Righteousness only imputed, he professeth himself to hold with Bradshaw, Grotius, &c. that the Active also is so imputed, being, Justitia Meriti, as well as Personae, and endeavoureth to prove it: But not imputed in the first rigid sense, as if God esteemed us to have been, and done, and suffered our selves in and by Christ, and merited by him. Thus he states the Controversy; And doth this Doctor fight for Truth and Peace, by 1. passing by all this; 2. Saying, I am against Imputed Righteousness; 3. And against the Reformed? Were not all the Divines before named Reformed? Was not Camero, Capellus, Placeus, Amyrald, Dallaeus▪ Blondel, &c. Reformed? Were not Wotton, Bradshaw, Gataker, &c. Reformed? Were not of late Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Truman, to pass many yet alive, Reformed? Must that Name be shamed, by appropriating it to such as this Doctor only?
And as distinct from theirs, who would thus have the Passive Righteousness only imputed, he professeth himself to hold with Bradshaw, Grotius, &c. that the Active also is so imputed, being, Justitia Meriti, as well as Personae, and endeavoureth to prove it: But not imputed in the first rigid sense, as if God esteemed us to have been, and done, and suffered our selves in and by Christ, and merited by him. Thus he states the Controversie; And doth this Doctor fight for Truth and Peace, by 1. passing by all this; 2. Saying, I am against Imputed Righteousness; 3. And against the Reformed? Were not all the Divines before named Reformed? Was not Camero, Capellus, Placeus, Amyrald, Dallaeus▪ Blondel, &c. Reformed? Were not Wotton, Bradshaw, Gataker, &c. Reformed? Were not of late Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Truman, to pass many yet alive, Reformed? Must that Name be shamed, by appropriating it to such as this Doctor only?