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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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Molinaeus casteth away the distinction, Thes. Sedan. v. 1. p. 625. § 18.
§ 18. In England most Divines used the phrase, that we were Justified by the forgiveness of sin and the Imputation of Christs Righteousness, and being accepted as Righteous unto life thereon: But the sense of Imputation few pretended accurately to discuss. Davenant who dealt most elaborately in it, and maintaineth Imputation stiffly, in terms; yet when he telleth you what Protestants mean by it, saith, that [Possunt nobis imputari, non solum nostrae passions, actiones, qualitates, sed etiam extrinseca quaedam, quae nec a nobis fluunt, nec in nobis haerent: ⟨p. 19⟩De facto autem Imputantur, quando illorum intuitus & respectus valent nobis ad aliquem effectum, aeque ac si a nobis aut in nobis essent. (Note, that he saith, but ad aliquem effectum, non ad omnem.) And he instanceth in one that is a slothful fellow himself, but is advanced to the Kings Favour and Nobility for some great Service done by his Progenitors to the Common-wealth. And in one that deserving death is pardoned through the Intercession of a friend, or upon some suffering in his stead which the King imposeth on his Friend. This is the Imputation which Davenant and other such Protestants plead for; which I think is not to be denied. Were it not for lengthening the discourse and wearying the Reader, I would cite many other of our greatest Divines, who plead for the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness, that Davenant here expoundeth himself.
§ 18. In England most Divines used the phrase, that we were Justified by the forgiveness of sin and the Imputation of Christs Righteousness, and being accepted as Righteous unto life thereon: But the sense of Imputation few pretended accurately to discuss. Davenant who dealt most elaborately in it, and maintaineth Imputation stiffly, in terms; yet when he telleth you what Protestants mean by it, saith, that [Possunt nobis imputari, non solum nostrae passiones, actiones, qualitates, sed etiam extrinseca quaedam, quae nec a nobis fluunt, nec in nobis haerent: ⟨p. 19⟩