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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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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.
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; Ʋrsine, Olevian,▪Piscator, Paraeus, Wendeline, and multitudes such, to be as famous Heroes as himself: But this also on the by.
§. 5. But I must tell him whether I abhor the Scripture Phrase, [We are dead, buried, and risen with Christ].
I answer, No; nor will I abhor to say, That in sensu forensi, I am one political Person with Christ, and am perfectly holy and obedient by and in him, and died and redeemed my self by him, when he shall prove them to be Scripture Phrases: But I desire the Reader not to be so fond, (pardon the word) as by this bare question to be enticed to believe, that it is any of the meaning of those Texts that use that Phrase which he mentioneth, that ⟨p. 194⟩[Legally, or in sensu forensi, every Believer is esteemed by God to have himself personally died a violent death on the Cross, and to have been buried, and to have risen again, and ascended into Heaven, nor yet to be now there in Glory, because Christ did and doth all this in our very Legal Person. Let him but 1. consider the Text, 2. and Expositors, 3. and the Analogy of Faith, and he will find another sense; viz. That we so live by Faith on a dying, buried, risen and glorified Saviour, as that as such he dwelleth objectively in our Hearts, and we partake so of the Fruits of his Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and Glory, as that we follow him in a Holy Communion, being dead and buried to the World and Sin, and risen to newness of Life, believing that by his Power we shall personally, after our death and burial, rise also unto Glory. I will confess that we are perfectly holy and obedient by and in Christ, as far as we are now dead, buried, and risen in him.