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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.
§. 3. Dr. T. The Greek word answering to Imputation, is ten times in Rom. 4. And what is imputed but Righteousness? we have then some imputed Righteousness. The Question is, only what or whose it is, Christ's or our own? Not ours, therefore Christs: If ours, either its the Righteousness of Works, or of Faith, &c.
Answ. 1. But what's all this to the Phrase? Could you have found that Phrase [Christ's Righteousness is imputed], why did you not recite the words, but Reason as for the sense?
2. Is that your way of Disputation, to prove that the Text speaketh of the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness, when the Question was only, In what sense? What kind of Readers do you expect, that shall take this for rational, candid, and a Plea for Truth?
3. But to a Man that cometh unprejudiced, it is most plain, that Paul meaneth by [imputing it for Righteousness] that the Person was or is, accounted, reckoned, or judged Righteous, where Righteousness is mentioned as the formal Relation of the Believer: so that what-ever be the matter of it (of which next) the formal Relation sure is our own, and so here said: And if it be from the matter of Christ's Righteousness, yet that must be our own, by your Opinion. And it must be our own, in and to the proper Effects, in mine. But sure it is not the same numerical formal Relation of [Righteousness] that is in Christ's Person, and in ours: And it's that formal Relation, as in Abraham, and not in Christ, that is called Abraham's Reputed Righteousness