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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.
Is the change that is made in all Languages in the World, made by the same public usage and imposition, from which at first they received their being? 6. If (as you say) the same thing can be represented by different words, only when they are Synonymous, should we not avoid seeming to represent the same by Equivocals, which unexplained are unfit for it? Pag. 20. You tell me what sad work you are doing; and no wonder, Sin and Passions are self-troubling things: And it's well if it be sad to your self alone, and not to such as you tempt into Mistakes, Hatred, and Division. It should be sad to every Christian, to see and hear those whom they ⟨p. 27⟩are bound to Love, represented as odious: And you are still, pag. 19. feigning, that [Every eye may see Men dealing Blows and Deaths about, and therefore we are not wise if we think them agreed. But doubtless, many that seem killed by such Blows as some of yours, are still alive? And many a one is in Heaven, that by Divines pretending to be Orthodox, were damned on Earth! And many Men are more agreed than they were aware of. I have known a Knavish Fellow set two Persons of quality on Fighting, before they spake a word to one another, by telling them secretly and falsely what one said against the other. Many differ, even to persecuting and bloodshed, by Will and Passion and Practice, upon a falsely supposed great-difference in Judgment. I will not so suddenly repeat what Proof I have given of some of this in the place you noted, Cath. Theol. Confer. 11, 12, & 13. There is more skill required to narrow differences, than to widen them; and to reconcile, than to divide; as there is to quench a Fire, than to kindle it; to build, than to pull down; to heal, than to wound. I presume therefore to repeat aloud my contrary Cautions to your Juniors. Young-Men, after long sad Experience of the sinful and miserable Contentions of the Clergy, and consequently of the Christian World, that you may escape the Guilt, I beseech you, whoever contradicteth it, consider and believe these following Notices: 1. That all Words are but arbitrary Signs, and are changed as Men please; and through the Penury of them, and Mans imperfection in the Art of Speaking, ⟨p. 28⟩there are very few at all, that have not various Significations. 2.
Is the change that is made in all Languages in the World, made by the same publick usage and imposition, from which at first they received their being? 6. If (as you say) the same thing can be represented by different words, only when they are Synonymous, should we not avoid seeming to represent the same by Equivocals, which unexplained are unfit for it? Pag. 20. You tell me what sad work you are doing; and no wonder, Sin and Passions are self-troubling things: And it's well if it be sad to your self alone, and not to such as you tempt into Mistakes, Hatred, and Division. It should be sad to every Christian, to see and hear those whom they