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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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And let a Man awake tell us what is the danger. But I would bring him yet to agreement even de nomine, though it anger him. 1. Let him read the Artic. 9. of the Church of England, and seeing there Original Sin is said to be that corruption of Nature whereby we are far gone from Original Righteousness, and are of our own Nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. The lust of the flesh called [Greek or Hebrew], which some do expound the Wisdom, some Sensuality, some the Affection, some the desire of the Flesh, not subject to the Law of God]: Seeing a degree of all this same Lust is in Men from the special sins of their Fore-fathers, as well as from Adam's; Is not this Degree here called Original Sin? (why the Church omitted the Imputed Guilt aforesaid, I enquire not). 2. If this will not serve, if he will find me any Text of Scripture, which useth the Phrase, [ORIGINAL Sin], I will promise him hereafter to ⟨p. 8⟩use it in no other sense, than the Scripture useth it. 3. If that will not serve, if the Masters of Language will agree, (yea, to pass by our Lexicons, if the Doctors of that University will give it us under their hands) that the word [ORIGINAL] is unaptly and dangerously applied to that sinful Guilt and Pravity which is in us ab Origine Nostrae existentiae, and is the internal Radix vel Origo of all our Actual Sin, in part of Causality, I will use that Epithet so no more. 4. If all this will not serve, if he himself will give me a fitter Epithet, I will use it: And now we over-agree in Doctrine, a word shall not divide us, unless he will be angry because we are agreed, as Jonah was that the Ninevites were spared, because it seemed to disgrace his Word. §. II. pag. 4, 5, &c. You invite me to, [a full entire retractation of my Doctrine of Justification (you add, By Works) and the secondary Original Sin]. 1. Will you take it well if I retract that which you profess now to hold, and know none that denieth, then there is no pleasing you: If I must be thought to wrong you for seeming to differ from you, and yet must retract all: What, yours and all Mens? 2. Do you mean the words or the sense of Justification (as you call it) by Works? For the words, I take you for a subscriber to the 39 Articles; and therefore that you reject not the Epistle of St. James:
And let a Man awake tell us what is the danger. But I would bring him yet to agreement even de nomine, though it anger him. 1. Let him read the Artic. 9. of the Church of England, and seeing there Original Sin is said to be that corruption of Nature whereby we are far gone from Original Righteousness, and are of our own Nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. The lust of the flesh called , which some do expound the Wisdom, some Sensuality, some the Affection, some the desire of the Flesh, not subject to the Law of God]: Seing a degree of all this same Lust is in Men from the special sins of their Fore-fathers, as well as from Adam's; Is not this Degree here called Original Sin? (why the Church omitted the Imputed Guilt aforesaid, I enquire not). 2. If this will not serve, if he will find me any Text of Scripture, which useth the Phrase, [ORIGINAL Sin], I will promise him hereafter to