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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.
You again do keep up the Dividing Fear, are offended that I persuade you, that by Melancholy Phantasms you set not the Churches together by the Ears, and make People believe that they differ, where they do not: And you ask, Who began the Fray? Answ. 1. Do you mean that I began with you? You do not sure: But is it that I began with the Churches, and you were necessitated to defend them? Yes, if Gallus, Ambsdorfius, Schlusselburgius, and Dr. Crisp, and his Followers, be the Church? But, Sir, I provoke you to try it by the just Testimony of Antiquity, who began to differ from the Churches. ⟨p. 21⟩In this Treatise I have given you some Account, and Vossius hath given you more. which you can never answer: But if my Doctrine put you upon this Necessity, what hindered you from perceiving it these twenty years and more, till now? O Sir, had you no other work to do, but to Vindicate the Church and Truth? I doubt you had. §. VIII. But pag. 15. You are again incredulous, that [All the Difference betwixt you and me, or others of the same Judgment in the Point of Justification, is merely Verbal; and that in the Main we are agreed]. And again you complain of your weak Legs. Answ. 1. I do agree with very many against, their wills in Judgment (because the Judgment may be constrained), but with none in Affection, as on their part. Did I ever say, that I differed not from you? I tell you, I know not what your Judgment is, nor know I who is of your Mind? But I have not barely said, but oft proved, that (though not the Antinomians) the Protestants are mostly here agreed in the Main. If you could not have time to read my larger Proof, that short Epistle to Mr. Allen's Book of the Covenant, in which I proved it, might have stopped your Mouth from calling for more Proof, till you had better confuted what was given. But you say, [Are perfect Contradictions no more than a difference in Words? Faith alone, and not Faith alone? Faith with and without Works? Excuse our Dullness here]. Answ. 1. Truly, Sir, it is a tedious thing, when a Man hath over and over Answered such ⟨p. 22⟩Objections; yea, when the full Answers have been twenty years in Print, to be put still to say over all again, to every Man that will come in and say, that his Legs are too weak to go see what was answered before: How many score times then, or hundreds, may I be called to repeat. 2.
You again do keep up the Dividing Fear, are offended that I perswade you, that by Melancholy Phantasms you set not the Churches together by the Ears, and make People believe that they differ, where they do not: And you ask, Who began the Fray? Answ. 1. Do you mean that I began with you? You do not sure: But is it that I began with the Churches, and you were necessitated to defend them? Yes, if Gallus, Ambsdorfius, Schlusselburgius, and Dr. Crispe, and his Followers, be the Church? But, Sir, I provoke you to try it by the just Testimony of Antiquity, who began to differ from the Churches.