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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. 1. Take notice Reader, that it is but the Words, and not the Matter that he here assaulteth; so that all here seemeth but lis de nomine. He before, pag. 84. extolleth Chrysostom for thus expounding, [He made him sin for us]; that is▪ to be condemned as an Offender, and to die as a Blasphemer. And this sense of Imputation we all admit; But Chrysostom in that place oft telleth us, That by [Sin] he meaneth both one counted a wicked Man by his Persecutors, [not by God] and one that suffered that cursed Death, which was due to wicked cursed Men: And which of us deny not Justification by Works as Chrysostom doth? I subscribe to his words, [It is God s Righteousness; seeing it is not of Works (for in them it were necessary that there be found no blot) but of Grace, which blotteth out and extinguisheth all sin: And this begetteth us a double benefit, for it suffereth us not to be lift up in mind, because it is all the Gift of God, and it showeth the greatness of the benefit]. This is as apt an Expression of my Judgment of Works and Grace as I could choose. But it's given to some Men to extol that in one Man, which they fervently revile in others. How frequently is Chrysostom by many accused as favouring Free-Will, and Man's Merits, and smelling of Pelagianism? And he that is acquainted with Chrysostom, must know, That he includeth all these things in Justification. 1. Remission ⟨p. 188⟩of the Sin, as to the Punishment, 2. Remission of it by Mortification, (for so he calleth it, in Rom. 3. p. (mihi) 63.) 3. Right to Life freely given for Christ's sake. 4. And Inherent Righteousness through Faith: And he oft saith, That this is called the Righteousness of God, because as God, who is living, quickeneth the dead, and as he that is strong giveth strength to the weak; so he that is Righteous, doth suddenly make them Righteous that were lapsed into sin], as he there also speaketh. And he oft tells us, It is Faith it self, and not only Christ believed in, that is imputed for Righteousness, or Justifieth: And in Rom. 4. p. 80. he calleth the Reward, [the Retribution of Faith]. And pag. 89.
Answ. 1. Take notice Reader, that it is but the Words, and not the Matter that he here assaulteth; so that all here seemeth but lis de nomine. He before, pag. 84. extolleth Chrysostom for thus expounding, [He made him sin for us]; that is to be condemned as an Offender, and to die as a Blasphemer. And this sense of Imputation we all admit; But Chrysostom in that place oft telleth us, That by [Sin] he meaneth both one counted a wicked Man by his Persecutors, [not by God] and one that suffered that cursed Death, which was due to wicked cursed Men: And which of us deny not Justification by Works as Chrysostom doth? I subscribe to his words, [It is God s Righteousness; seeing it is not of Works (for in them it were necessary that there be found no blot) but of Grace, which blotteth out and extinguisheth all sin: And this begetteth us a double benefit, for it suffereth us not to be lift up in mind, because it is all the Gift of God, and it sheweth the greatness of the benefit]. This is as apt an Expression of my Judgment of Works and Grace as I could chuse. But it's given to some Men to extol that in one Man, which they fervently revile in others. How frequently is Chrysostom by many accused as favouring Free-Will, and Man's Merits, and smelling of Pelagianism? And he that is acquainted with Chrysostom, must know, That he includeth all these things in Justification. 1. Remission