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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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If I must pardon your Dullness, you must pardon my Christianity (or choose) who believe that there is no such [perfect Contradictions] between Christ's, [By thy Words thou shalt be Justified] and Paul's, [Justified by Faith, without the Works of the Law] or [not of Works]; and James's [We are justified by Works, and not by Faith only]. Must we needs proclaim War here, or cry▪ out, Heresy, or Popery? Are not all these Reconcilable? Yea, and Pauls too, Rom. 2. The Doers of the Law shall be justified. 3. But did I ever deny that it is [by Faith alone and without Works]? Where, and when? But may it not be, by Faith alone in one sense, and not by Faith alone in another sense? 4. But even where you are speaking of it, you cannot be drawn to distinguish of Verbal and Real Differences. Is it here the Words, or Sense, which you accuse? The Words you dare not deny to be Gods own in Scripture, spoken by Christ, Paul, and James. My Sense I have opened to you at large, and you take no Notice of it; but as if you abhorred Explication and Distinction, speak still against the Scripture Words. §. IX. Pag. 16. But you say, [Let any discerning Reader compare the 48 §. of this Preface with the Words in pag. 5. of your Appeal to the Light, ⟨p. 23⟩and 'tis likely he will concur with me, in that Melancholy Phantasm, or Fear: For 'tis worth the noting, how in that dark Appeal where you distinguish of Popish Points, i. e. some-where the Difference is reconcilable, others in effect but in words; we have no Direction upon which Rank we must bestow Justification, nothing of it at all from you, Name or Thing: But why, next to the All-seeing God, you should know best your self]. Answ. Alas, Sir, that God should be in such a manner mentioned! I answered this same Case at large in my Confession, Apology, Dispute of Justification, &c. Twenty years ago, or near; I have at large Opened it in a Folio (Cathol. Theol.) which you saw, yea, in the very part which you take Notice of; and now you publish it [worth the Noting, that I did not also in one sheet of Paper, Printed the other day against a Calumny of some Sectarian Hearers, who gave me no Occasion for such a work. Had it not been a Vanity of me, Should I in that sheet again have repeated, how I and the Papists differ about Justification? Were you bound to have read it in that sheet, any more▪ than in many former Volumes?