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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. How blind are some in their own Cause? Why did not Conscience at the naming of Calumny say, [I am now committing it?] It were better write in English, if Latin translations must ⟨p. 193⟩needs be so false! we use the word [fond] in our Country, in another sense than [foolish]; with us it signifieth any biassed Inclination, which beyond reason propendeth to one side: and so we use to say, That Women are fond of their Children, or of any thing over-loved: But perhaps he can use his Logic, to gather by consequences the Title of the Person, from the Title of his Opinion, and to gather [foolishly] by consequence out of [fondly]. To all which I can but answer, That if he had made himself the Translator of my Words, and the Judg of my Opinions; if this be his best, he should not be chosen as such by me. But it may be he turned to Riders Dictionary, & found there [fondly, vide foolishly].
Answ. 1. How blind are some in their own Cause? Why did not Conscience at the naming of Calumnie say, [I am now committing it?] It were better write in English, if Latin translations must ⟨p. 193⟩needs be so false! we use the word [fond] in our Country, in another sense than [foolish]; with us it signifieth any byassed Inclination, which beyond reason propendeth to one side: and so we use to say, That Women are fond of their Children, or of any thing over-loved: But perhaps he can use his Logick, to gather by consequences the Title of the Person, from the Title of his Opinion, and to gather [foolishly] by consequence out of [fondly]. To all which I can but answer, That if he had made himself the Translator of my Words, and the Judg of my Opinions; if this be his best, he should not be chosen as such by me. But it may be he turned to Riders Dictionary, & found there [fondly, vide foolishly].
2. The Stolidi Theologi then is his own phrase! And in my Opinion, another Mans Pen might better have called the Men of his own Opinion [Ecclesiae Reformatae clarissimos Heroas] compared with others! I take Gataker, Bradshaw, Wotton, Camero, and his followers; Ursine, Olevian,Piscator, Paraeus, Wendeline, and multitudes such, to be as famous Heroes as himself: But this also on the by.