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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.
But for me who am thus publicly by visible Calumny traduced, truly to tell you where you mistake, ⟨p. 76⟩and how you wrong Gods Church and Truth more than me, and if also I offer peaceably to wash my own face, this is hard fronted Calumny, dragging a Doctor in Scarlet at the Wheels of my Chariot, which might occasion his degrading and turning out, &c. This over-tenderness of your honour as to other mens words, (and too little care of the means of it, as to your own) hath a cause that it concerneth you to find out. Had you the tenth part as many Books written against you, as are against me (by Quakers, Seekers, Infidels, Antinomians, Millenaries, Anabaptists, Separatists, Semi-separatists, Papists, Pseudo-Tilenus, Diocesans, Conformists, and many Enemies of Peace, (to whom it was not I, but your self that joined you) it would have hardened you into some more patience. If you will needs be militant you must expect replies: And he that will injuriously speak to the World what he should not speak, must look to hear what he would not hear. But you add; Sir, the Name and Quality of a DOCTOR and Master of a Literate Society, might have been treated more civilly by you. Answ. 1. I am ready to ask you forgiveness for any word that any impartial man (yea or your Reverend Brethren of that Academy themselves, whom I will allow to be somewhat partial for you) shall notify to me to be uncivil or any way injurious. 2. But to be free with you, neither Doctorship, Mastership nor scarlet will Privilege you to fight against Truth, Right, and Peace, and to vent gross mistakes, and by gross untruths in matter of fact, such as is your [Omnem ludibrio habet imputationem] to abuse your poor Brethren, and keep the long-consuming ⟨p. 77⟩flames still burning, by false representing those as Popish, and I know not what, who speak not as unaptly as your self, and all this without contradiction. Were you a Bp. my Body and Estate might be in your power, but Truth, Justice and the Love of Christians, and the Churches peace, should not be cowardly betrayed by me on pretence of reverence to your Name and Quality. I am heartily desirous that for ORDER-sake the Name and Honour of my Superiors may be very reverently used. But if they, will think that Error, Injustice, and Confusion must take sanctuary under bare Ecclesiastical or Academical Names and robes, they will find themselves mistaken: