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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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And if Men of various degrees of Learning (or Speaking-skill) and of various degrees of Holiness, Humility, and Love, shall quarrel about Words, and forms of Speech, and shall hereticate, and revile, and damn each other, while the Essentials are held fast and practised, discern Right from Wrong as well as you can; but take heed that none of them make Words a snare, to draw you injuriously to think hatefully of your Brother, or to divide the Churches, or Servants of Christ: And suspect such a Snare because of the great ambiguity of Words, and imperfection of Mans Skill and Honesty in all Matters of debate: And never dispute seriously, without first agreeing of the Sense of every doubtful term with him that you Dispute with]. ⟨p. 30⟩Dr. Tully's Alarm, and other Mens militant Course, persuaded me as a Preservative, to commend this Counsel to you. §. XI. Pag. 19. You next very justly commend Method, ordering, and expressing our Conceptions, of which (you say) I seem to make little account in Comparison]. Answ. 1. Had you said, that I had been unhappy in my Endeavours, your Authority might have gone for Proof with many: But you could scarce have spoken a more incredible word of me, than that I seem to make little account of Method, I look for no sharper Censure from the Theological Tribe, than that I Over-do in my Endeavours after Method. You shall not tempt me here unseasonably, to anticipate what Evidence I have to produce for my acquittance from this Accusation. 2. But yet I will still say, that it is not so necessary either to Salvation, or to the Churches Peace, that we all agree in Methods and Expressions, as that we agree in the hearty reception of Christ, and obedience to His Commands? So much Method all must know, as to know the Beginning and the End, from the Effects and Means, God from the Creature, and as our true consent to the Baptismal Covenant doth require; and I will thankfully use all the help which you give me to go further: But I never yet saw that Scheme of Theology, or of any of its Heads, which was any whit large, (and I have seen many) which was so exact in Order, as that it was dangerous in any thing to forsake it. But I cannot think meet to talk much of Method, with a Man that talketh as you ⟨p. 31⟩do of Distinguishing, and handleth the Doctrine of Justification no more Methodically than you do. §. XII. But pag. 19.
And if Men of various degrees of Learning (or Speaking-skill) and of various degrees of Holiness, Humility, and Love, shall quarrel about Words, and forms of Speech, and shall hereticate, and revile, and damn each other, while the Essentials are held fast and practised, discern Right from Wrong as well as you can; but take heed that none of them make Words a snare, to draw you injuriously to think hatefully of your Brother, or to divide the Churches, or Servants of Christ: And suspect such a Snare because of the great ambiguity of Words, and imperfection of Mans Skill and Honesty in all Matters of debate: And never dispute seriously, without first agreeing of the Sense of every doubtful term with him that you Dispute with].