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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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should be dealt with by an Adversary, according to some of his later and larger Explications, and not according to the Mode and Wording of that one Suspended Book alone: Shall such a Man as you say, that I [tell you of about sixty Books of Retractations]? Or will it not abate Mens reverence of your disputing Accurateness, to find you so untrusty in the Recitation of a Man's words? The truth is, it is this great Defect of Heed and Accurateness, by hasty Temerity, which also spoileth your Disputations. But, pag. 7. the Aphorisms must be, [The most Scholar-like, and Elaborate (though Erroneous) Book in Controversy, you ever Composed]. Answ. 1. Your Memory is faulty: Why say you in the next, that I appeal to my Disputation of Justification and some others; but you cannot Trudge up and down, to every place I would send you, your Legs are too weak? Either you had read all the sixty Books which you mention (the Controversial at least) or not: If not, How can you tell that the Aphorisms is the most Elaborate? If yea, Why do you excuse your Trudging, and why would you select a Suspended Book, and touch none that were Written at large on the same Subject? 2. By this (I su• pose to make your Nibble to seem a Triumph) you tell your Reader again, how to value your Judgment. Is it like that any Dunce that is diligent, should Write no more Scholar-like at Sixty years of Age than at Thirty? And do you think you know better what of mine is Elaborate, than I do? Sure that Word might have been spared; ⟨p. 14⟩When I know that one printed Leaf of Paper hath cost me more Labour than all that Book, and perhaps one Scheme of the Distinctions of Justification, which you deride. If indeed you are a competent Judg of your own Writings, Experience assureth me, that you are not so of mine. And pag. 25. you say, You desire not to be preferred before your Betters, least of all when you are singular; as here I think you are. §. III. Pag. 9. You are offended for being put in the Cub, with divers mean and contemptible Malefactors.] Answ. O for Justice! 1. Was not Bellarmin, or some of the Papists and the Socinians, as great Malefactors, with whom (as you phrase it) you put me in the Cub? 2. Are they Malefactors so far as they agree with you in Doctrine, and are you Innocent? What is the Difference between your Treatise, in the part that toucheth me, and that of Mr. Eyres, Mr.
should be dealt with by an Adversary, according to some of his later and larger Explications, and not according to the Mode and Wording of that one Suspended Book alone: Shall such a Man as you say, that I [tel you of about sixty Books of Retractations]? Or will it not abate Mens reverence of your disputing Accurateness, to find you so untrusty in the Recitation of a Man's words? The truth is, it is this great Defect of Heed and Accurateness, by hasty Temerity, which also spoileth your Disputations. But, pag. 7. the Aphorisms must be, [The most Schollar-like, and Elaborate (though Erroneous) Book in Controversie, you ever Composed]. Answ. 1. Your Memory is faulty: Why say you in the next, that I appeal to my Disputation of Justification and some others; but you cannot Trudg up and down, to every place I would send you, your Legs are too weak? Either you had read all the sixty Books which you mention (the Controversal at least) or not: If not, How can you tell that the Aphorisms is the most Elaborate? If yea, Why do you excuse your Trudging, and why would you select a Suspended Book, and touch none that were Written at large on the same Subject? 2. By this (I su pose to make your Nibble to seem a Triumph) you tell your Reader again, how to value your Judgment. Is it like that any Dunce that is diligent, should Write no more Schollar-like at Sixty years of Age than at Thirty? And do you think you know better what of mine is Elaborate, than I do? Sure that Word might have been spared;