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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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Between twenty and thirty years ago, I did in a private Disputation prove our guilt of the sins of our nearer Parents; and because many ⟨p. 3⟩doubted of it, I have oft since in other writings mentioned it: About three years ago, having two Books of Mr. William Allen's in my hand to peruse, in order to a Publication, (a Persuasive to Unity, and a Treatise of the Two Covenants); in a Preface to the latter, I said, [That most Writers, if not most Christians, do greatly darken the Sacred Doctrine, by overlooking the Interest of Children in the Actions of their nearer Parents, and think that they participate of no guilt, and suffer for no original sin, but Adam's only, &c.] You fastened on this, and warned seriously the Juniors, not rashly to believe one that brings forth such Paradoxes of his (or that) Theology, which you added to your [O caecos ante Theologos quicunque unquam fuistis]: The charge was expressed by [aliud invenisse peccatum Original, multo citerius quam quod ab Adamo traductum est]. Hereupon I thought it enough to publish that old private Disputation, which many before had seen with various Censures: Now you send me in your Letter the strange tidings of the success: You that deterred your Juniors by so frightful a warning, seem now not only to agree with me, that we are guilty of our nearer Parents sin, and contract additional pravity from them as such, (which was my Assertion) but over-do all others, and Truth it self in your Agreement! Now you take it for an injury to be reported to think otherwise herein than I do: yea, and add, [Which neither I, nor any Body else I know of, denies as to the thing, though in the extent, and other circumstances, all are not agreed, and you may in that enjoy your Opinion for me]. This is too kind: I am loth to tell you how many ⟨p. 4⟩that I know, and have read, deny it, lest I tempt you to repent of your Agreement. But doth the World yet need a fuller evidence, that some Men are de materiâ agreed with them, whom they raise the Country against by their Accusations and Suspicions? But surely what passion or spatling soever it hath occasioned from you, I reckon that my labour is not lost: I may tell your Juniors, that I have sped extraordinary well, when I have procured the published consent of such a Doctor. Either you were of this mind before or not:
Between twenty and thirty years ago, I did in a private Disputation prove our guilt of the sins of our nearer Parents; and because many