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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.
thus defineth it, [Actio Dei qua ex gratia propter satisfactionem Christi peccatoribus in Christum totius Mundi redemptorem unicum, vere credentibus gratis sine operibus aut meritis propriis omnia peccata remittit, & justitiam Christi imputat ad sui nominis gloriam & illorum salutem aeternam. And he maketh only [Christs full satisfaction for Sin, to be the Impulsive-External, Meritorious, and Material, Cause, as being that which is imputed to us; and the Form of Justification to be the Remission of Sin, Original and Actual, or the Imputation of Christs Righteousness (which he maketh to be all one) or the Imputation of Faith for Righteousness]. Saith Bishop Downame of Justif. p. 305. [To be Formally Righteous by Christs Righteousness imputed, never any of us, for ought I know, affirmed. The like saith Dr. Pride•aux, when yet very many Protestants affirm it. Should I here set together forty or sixty Definitions of Protestants verbatim, and show you how ⟨p. 68⟩much they differ, it would be unpleasant, and tedious, and unnecessary. And as to those same Divines that Dr. Tully nameth as agreed, Dr. Davenants and Dr. Fields words I have cited at large in my Confess. saying the same in substance as I do; as also Mr. Scudders, and an hundred more, as is before said. And let any sober Reader decide this Controversy between us, upon these two further Considerations. 1. Peruse all the Corpus Confessionum, and see whether all the Reformed Churches give us a Definition of Justification, and agree in that Definition: Yea, whether the Church of England in its Catechism, or its Articles, have any proper Definition: Or if you will call their words a Definition, I am sure it's none but what I do consent to. And if a Logical Definition were by the Church of England and other Churches held necessary to Salvation, it would be in their Catechisms (if not in the Creed): Or if it were held necessary to Church-Concord, and Peace, and Love, it would be in their Articles of Religion, which they subscribe. 2. How can all Protestants agree of the Logical Definition of Justification, when 1. They agree not of the sense of the word [Justify,] and of the species of that Justification which Paul and James speak of? Some make Justification to include Pardon and Sanctification, (see their words in G. Forbes, and Le Blank); many say otherwise.
thus defineth it, [Actio Dei qua ex gratia propter satisfactionem Christi peccatoribus in Christum totius Mundi redemptorem unicum, vere credentibus gratis sine operibus aut meritis propriis omnia peccata remittit, & justitiam Christi imputat ad sui nominis gloriam & illorum salutem aeternam. And he maketh only [Christs full satisfaction for Sin, to be the Impulsive-External, Meritorious, and Material, Cause, as being that which is imputed to us; and the Form of Justification to be the Remission of Sin, Original and Actual, or the Imputation of Christs Righteousness (which he maketh to be all one) or the Imputation of Faith for Righteousness]. Saith Bishop Downame of Justif. p. 305. [To be Formally Righteous by Christs Righteousness imputed, never any of us, for ought I know, affirmed. The like saith Dr. Prideaux, when yet very many Protestants affirm it. Should I here set together forty or sixty Definitions of Protestants verbatim, and shew you how