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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 it then [a hard-fronted Calumny] to defend it, and to tell you what is contained in the denying of it. The audience of God must be so dreadful to (you and) me, that (without calling you to consider whether the Calumny be not notoriously yours) I heartily desire any judicious person to help me to see, that I am here guilty, if it be so. But you add, ⟨p. 72⟩[You know not what the Event of all this may be▪ For suppose now, being dragged in my Scarlet, (a habit more suitable for him that Triumphs) at the Wheel of your Chariot in the view of all men, I should happen to be degraded and turned out of my literate Society; would it not trouble you? no doubt: but then it might happen to be too late. Answ. 1. It would trouble me: because (though I know you not) our fame here saith that you are an honest, and very modest man, and those that are Nicknamed Calvinists prefer you before most others of your rank. But alas, what is Man, and what may Temptation do? 2. did you think that your Scarlet or Mastership did allow you to write copiously, as you did, against your Neighbour who never meddled with you, and made it a crime in him, whom you accuse, to defend himself, and a righteous cause? I see in this age we deal on hard unequal terms with some Men that can but get into Scarlet. 3. You would make your Reader believe by these words that you are really Melancholy, and fear where no fear is▪ A Reverend Doctor, whose Book hath the Patronage of one of the greatest Bps. of England writeth against one of no Academical degree, who hath these 13. years and more been judged unworthy to preach to the most ignorant Congregation in the Land, and by the (Contrived) distinction of Nonconformists from Conformists, goeth under the scorn and hatred of such, as you pretend to be in danger of, and hath himself no security for his liberty in the open Air; that this Learned man in his honour, should conceit that an Answer from this hated person might endanger his degradation and ⟨p. 73⟩turning out of his place, is so strange a fancy, as will make your Readers wonder. 4. But whether you are Melancholy or no I know not; but if you are not unrighteous, I know not what unrighteousness is. Will you bear with the diversion of a story? When the Moors were sentenced to ruin in Spain, one of the Disciples of Valdesso (a Scholar) fell into the displeasure of the Bp. of Toledo: