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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 have all my Readers already told you their Judgment? Alas! How few? In all London, not a Man hath yet given me Notice of his Dislike, or Dissent. And sure your own Pen is a good Confuter of you. It is some Credit, that such a Man as you, is forced to profess a full Consent to the Doctrine, though with passionate Indignation. You tell me of [Nothing to the Question]. But will you not be angry if I should but tell you, how little you did to state any Question, and in Reason must be supposed, when you assaulted my ⟨p. 18⟩Doctrine, to take it as I stated it; which I have fully showed you? You tell me, that You Charged me only with new Original Sin, underived from Adam, unknown, unheard of before, in the Christian World. Answ. De re, is not our Guilt of nearer Parent's Sins such which you and all that you know (now at last) confess? De nomine, 1. Tell the World if you can, when I called it [New Original Sin, or underived from Adam, or unknown, or unheard of]. There are more ways than one of Derivation from Adam. It is not derived from him by such Imputation as his first Sin; but it is derived from him as a partial Causa Causae, by many Gradations. All Sin is some-way from him. Either you mean that I said, that it was not Derived from Adam, or you gather it by some Consequence from what I said. If the First, show the Words, and the Shame shall be mine. If not, you know the old Law, that to false Accusers, it must be done as they would have done to the Accused. But if it be your Consequence, prove it, and tell the World, what are the Premises that infer it. §. VI. Pag. 12. You friendly help me to profit by my self, however you profess that you profit not by me! What I have said to you against [Hasty Judging], I have first said to my self, and the more you warn me of it, the more friendly you are: If it be not against such as you but my self, it is against my self that I have a Treatise on that Subject; but I begin to think my self in this more Seeing than you; for I see it both in my self and you, and you seem to see it in me, and not in ⟨p. 19⟩your self. But with all Men, I find, that to see the Spots in our own Face immediately is hard, and to love the Glass which showeth them, is not easy; especially to some Men that neither are low, nor can endure to be so, till there is no Remedy.
And have all my Readers already told you their Judgment? Alas! How few? In all London, not a Man hath yet given me Notice of his Dislike, or Dissent. And sure your own Pen is a good Confuter of you. It is some Credit, that such a Man as you, is forced to profess a full Consent to the Doctrine, though with passionate Indignation. You tell me of [Nothing to the Question]. But will you not be angry if I should but tell you, how little you did to state any Question, and in Reason must be supposed, when you assaulted my