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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.
Answ. Expressly against the words of the Holy Ghost there oft repeated. Is this defending the Scripture, expressly to deny it? Should not reverence, and our subscription to the Scripture sufficiently rather teach us to distinguish, and tell in what sense it is imputed, and in what not, than thus to deny, without distinction, what it doth so oft assert? Yea, the Text nameth nothing else as so imputed, but Faith.
Answ. Expresly against the words of the Holy Ghost there oft repeated. Is this defending the Scripture, expresly to deny it? Should not reverence, and our subscription to the Scripture sufficiently rather teach us to distinguish, and tell in what sense it is imputed, and in what not, than thus to deny, without distinction, what it doth so oft assert? Yea, the Text nameth nothing else as so imputed, but Faith.
§. 5. If it be imputed, it is either as some Virtue, or Humane Work, (the [Greek or Hebrew] Credere) or as it apprehendeth and applieth Christ's Righteousness? Not (the first) — If Faith be imputed relatively only, as it applieth to a Sinner the Righteousness of Christ, it's manifest that it's the Righteousness of Christ only that is imputed, and that Faith doth no more to Righteousness, than an empty hand to receive an Alms.
§. 5. If it be imputed, it is either as some Virtue, or Humane Work, (the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Credere) or as it apprehendeth and applyeth Christ's Righteousness? Not (the first) — If Faith be imputed relatively only, as it applyeth to a Sinner the Righteousness of Christ, it's manifest that it's the Righteousness of Christ only that is imputed, and that Faith doth no more to Righteousness, than an empty hand to receive an Alms.
Answ. 1. Sure it doth as a voluntarily receiving hand, and not as a mere empty hand. And voluntary grateful Reception may be the Condition of a Gift.