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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 Antinomians then swarming in London, Mr. Anthony Burges, a very worthy Divine was employed ⟨p. 22⟩to Preach and Print against them; which he did in several books: but had he been acquainted with the men as I was, he would have found more need to have vindicated the Gospel against them than the Law.
Being daily conversant my self with the Antinomian and Arminian Soldiers, and hearing their daily contests, I thought it pity that nothing but one extreme should be used to beat down that other, and I found the Antinomian party far the stronger, higher, and more fierce, and working towards greater changes and subversions; And I found that they were just falling in with Saltmarsh, that Christ hath repented and believed for us, and that we must no more question our Faith and Repentance, than Christ. This awakened me better to study these points; And being young, and not furnished with sufficient reading of the Controversy, and also being where were no libraries, I was put to study only the naked matter in it self. Whereupon I shortly wrote a small book called Aphorisms of Justification, &c. Which contained that Doctrine in substance which I judg sound; but being the first that I wrote, it had several expressions in it which needed correction; which made me suspend or retract it till I had time to reform them. Mens judgments of it were various, some for it and some against it: I had before been a great esteemer of two books of one name, Vindiciae Gratiae, Mr. Pembles and Dr. Twisses, above most other books. And from them I had taken in the opinion of a double Justification, one in foro Dei as an Immanent eternal Act of God, and another in foro Conscientiae, the Knowledge of that; and I knew no other: But now I saw, that neither of ⟨p. 23⟩those was the Justification which the Scripture spake of. But some half-Antinomians which were for the Justification before Faith, which I wrote against, were most angry with my book. And Mr. Crandon wrote against it, which I answered in an Apology, and fuller wrote my judgment in my Confession; and yet more fully in some Disputations of Justification against Mr. Burges, who had in a book of Justification made some exceptions; and pag. 346. had defended that [As in Christ's suffering we were looked upon by God as suffering in him; so by Christs obeying of the Law, we were beheld as fulfilling the Law in him.] To those Disputations I never had any answer. And sin then in my Life of Faith, I have opened the Libertine errors about Justification, and stated the sense of Imputation.