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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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Crandon, and some others such? Dr. Owen, and Dr. Kendall, indeed differed from you; the latter seeking (by Bishop Usher) an amicable Closure, and the former (if I understand his Book on the Hebrews) less differing from me in Doctrine, than once he either did, or seemed to do. (And if any of us all grow no Wiser in thirty years Study, we may be ashamed). But to give you your due Honour, I will name you with your Equals, as far as I can judg, viz. Maccovius, Cluto, Coccejus, and Cloppenburgius, (I mean but in the Point in Question; it's no Dishonour to you to give some of them Precedency in other things). It may be also Spanhemius, was near you. But ⟨p. 15⟩(if I may presume to liken my Betters) no Men seem to me to have been so like you, as Guilielmus Rivet, (not Andrew), Mr. George Walker, and Mr. Roborough. (I hope this Company is no Dishonour to you). And very unlike you are Le Blank, Camero, Davenant, Dr. Hammond, Mr. Gataker, Mr. Anthony Wotton, and in Complexion Scotus and Ockam, and such as they: If yet I have not Chosen you pleasing Company, I pray you choose so your self. But you say on, [Had you not (in your Memory many Scores of greatest Eminence and Repute in the Christian World, of the same Judgment with me— Know you not, I speak the same thing with all the Reformed Churches, &c.— For shame let it be the Church of England, with all the rest of the Reformed, &c.] Answ. 1. I know not what you hold, even when I read what you write: (I must hope as well as I can, that you know your self): How then should I know who are of the same Judgment with you? 2. Yet I am very confident, that all they whom you mention, are of the same in some thing or other; and in particular, that we are Justified by Faith, and not by the Works of the Law, or any Works in the sense denied by St. Paul, &c. 3. Do not I, with as great Confidence as you, lay Claim to the same Company and Concord? And if one of us be mistaken, must your bare Word determine which it is? Which of us hath brought the fuller Proofs? I subscribe to the Doctrine of the Church of England, as well as you; and my Condition these thirteen or fourteen years, giveth ⟨p. 16⟩as much Evidence, that I am loth to subscribe to what I believe not, as yours doth of you.
Crandon, and some others such? Dr. Owen, and Dr. Kendale, indeed differed from you; the latter seeking (by Bishop Ʋsher) an amicable Closure, and the former (if I understand his Book on the Hebrews) less differing from me in Doctrine, than once he either did, or seemed to do. (And if any of us all grow no Wiser in thirty years Study, we may be ashamed). But to give you your due Honour, I will name you with your Equals, as far as I can judg, viz. Maccovius, Cluto, Coccejus, and Cloppenburgius, (I mean but in the Point in Question; it's no Dishonour to you to give some of them Precedencie in other things). It may be also Spanhemius, was near you. But