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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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Answ. And to what purpose is it to dispute long, where so notorious a contradiction is not only not discerned, but obtruded as tantum non necessary to our Orthodoxness, if not to our Salvation? I ask him,
1. Was not Christ as our Mediator perfectly holy habitually, and actually, without Original or Actual Sin?
2. If all this be reputed to be in se, our own as subjected in and done by our selves political, or in sensu forensi; Are we not then reputed in foro, to have no original or actual sin, but to have innocently fulfilled all the Law, from the first hour of our lives to the last? Are we reputed innocent in Christ, as to one part only of our lives, (if so, which is it?) or as to all?
3. If as to all, is it not a contradiction that in Law-sense, we are reputed perfectly Holy and Innocent, and yet sinners.