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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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Pag. 27. Though your approach be wrathful, you are constrained to come nearer yet, and you cannot deny my Rule of Direct. in other Points, but only those of [High and difficult speculation]: And do you deny it there? You ⟨p. 49⟩will deal with it but as the application of that Rule to the Definition of Justification? (And shall we lose your favour, by forcing you to lay by your Opposition as to all the rest?) But here you say you [exceedingly differ from me]; Or else you would be ashamed of so much Combating in the dark: Exceeding oft signifieth some extreme. Your Reasons are, 1. You hold not the Doctrine of Justification to be properly of Speculative concern, but wholly Practical: Where yet you confess, that in all Practical knowledge, there be some antecedent contemplations of the Nature, Properties, End, Object, and that to know the certain number of Paces bum-ward, is a Speculative nicety]. Answ. And can you find no fairer a shift for disagreement? I would such as you made not the Doctrine of Justification too little Practical? I am far from thinking that it is not Practical: But is not a Logical definition the opening the Nature, Properties, End, Object, or some of these which you call Contemplations? Make not plain things dark, Sir: The use of Art is not to shut the Windows, and confound Mens Minds. I take all Theology to be together, Scientia-affectiva-practica; for our Intellect, Will, and Practice, must be possest or ruled by it: But it is first Scientia, and we must know before we can will and practise. And though all right knowledge tend to Practice, yet forgive me for telling you, that I think that many holy Persons in Scripture and Primitive times, loved and practised more than you or I, who knew not how to form an exact Logical Definition. And that he that knoweth the things of the Spirit spiritually, by Scripture Notions, may practise them ⟨p. 50⟩as fully, as he that knoweth and speaketh them in the Notions of Aristotle; or else the School-Men excel the Apostles. Though ambling be an easy Pace, which Horses are taught by Gives and Fetters, it followeth not that a Horse cannot travel as far in his natural pace. When you have said all, Logical defining shall be a work of Art, and the Church should not be torn, and Souls shall not be damned, for want of it.
Pag. 27. Though your approach be wrathful, you are constrained to come nearer yet, and you cannot deny my Rule of Direct. in other Points, but only those of [High and difficult speculation]: And do you deny it there? You