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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.
And what hath he against this? Why that ⟨p. 196⟩which taketh up many pages of his Book, and seemeth his chief strength in most of his Contest, viz. [The Papists say the same] and [so saith Bellarmine]. It's strange that the same kind of Men that deride Fanatic Sectaries, for crying out in Church-Controversies, [O Antichristian Popery, Bellarmine, &c.] should be of the same Spirit, and take the same course in greater Matters, and not perceive it, nor acknowledge their agreement with them! But as Mr. J. Humphrey saith in the foresaid Book of the word [Schism, Schism] oft canted out against them, that will not sacrilegiously surrender their Consciences, or desert their Ministry, [The great Bear hath been so oft led through the streets, that now the Boys lay by all fear, and laugh or make sport at him] so say I of this Sectarian Bugbear, [Popery, Antichristian, Bellarmine] either the Papists really say as we do, or they do not. If not, is this Doctor more to be blamed for making them better than they are, or for making us worse? which ever it be, Truth should defend Truth. If they do, I heartily rejoice, and it shall be none of my labour any more (whatever I did in my Confession of Faith) to prove that they do not. Let who will manage such ungrateful Work. For my part, I take it for a better Character of any Opinion, that Papists and Protestants agree in it, than that the Protestants hold it alone. And so much for [Papists and Bellarmine] though I think I know better what they teach, than his Book will truly tell me.
And what hath he against this? Why that ⟨p. 196⟩which taketh up many pages of his Book, and seemeth his chief strength in most of his Contest, viz. [The Papists say the same] and [so saith Bellarmine]. It's strange that the same kind of Men that deride Fanatick Sectaries, for crying out in Church-Controversies, [O Antichristian Popery, Bellarmine, &c.] should be of the same Spirit, and take the same course in greater Matters, and not perceive it, nor acknowledg their agreement with them! But as Mr. J. Humfrey saith in the foresaid Book of the word [Schism, Schism] oft canted out against them, that will not sacrilegiously surrender their Consciences, or desert their Ministry, [The great Bear hath been so oft led through the streets, that now the Boys lay by all fear, and laugh or make sport at him] so say I of this Sectarian Bugbear, [Popery, Antichristian, Bellarmine] either the Papists really say as we do, or they do not. If not, is this Doctor more to be blamed for making them better than they are, or for making us worse? which ever it be, Truth should defend Truth. If they do, I heartily rejoyce, and it shall be none of my labour any more (whatever I did in my Confession of Faith) to prove that they do not. Let who will manage such ungrateful Work. For my part, I take it for a better Character of any Opinion, that Papists and Protestants agree in it, than that the Protestants hold it alone. And so much for [Papists and Bellarmine] though I think I know better what they teach, than his Book will truly tell me.