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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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Truth and Honesty will conquer when they pass through Smithfield flames: Prisons confine them not; Death kills them not; No siege will force an honest Conscience by famine to give up. He that cannot endure the sight of his own excrements must not dish them up to another mans Table, lest they be sent him back again. And more freedom is allowed against Peace-Breakers in Frays and Wars, than towards men that are in a quieter sort of Controversy. § XX. P. 36.37. You say [For your various Definitions of Justification, Constitutive, Sentential, Executive, in Foro Dei, in foro Conscientiae, &c.— What need this heap of distinctions here, when you know the question betwixt us is of no other Justification, but the Constitutive in foro Dei, that which maketh us righteous in the Court of Heaven? I have nothing to do with you yet in any else, as your own Conscience will tell you when you please: If you have not more Justice and civility for your intelligent Readers, I wish you ⟨p. 78⟩would show more Compassion to your Ignorant Homagers, and not thus abuse them with your palpable Evasions. Answ. Doth the question, Whether the several sorts of Justification will bear one and the same Definition, deserve all this anger (and the much greater that followeth)? 1. Seeing I am turned to my Reader, I will crave his impartial judgment: I never received and agreed on a state of the question with this Doctor: He writeth against my books: In those Books I over and over and over distinguish of Justification, Constitutive, Sentential, and Executive (besides those subordinate sorts, by Witness, Evidence, Apology, &c.) I oft open their differences: He writeth against me, as denying all Imputation of Christs Righteousness, and holding Popish Justification by works, and never tells me whether he take the word [Justification] in the same sense that I do, or in which of those that I had opened: And now he passionately appealeth to my Conscience that I knew his sense: What he saith [my Conscience will tell me] it is not true. It will tell me no such thing: but the clean contrary, that even after all his Disputes and Anger, and these words, I profess I know not what he meaneth by [Justification.] 2. What [Constitutive in foro Dei, that which maketh us Righteous in the Court of Heaven] meaneth with him, I cannot conjecture. He denieth not my Distinctions, but saith, what need they:
Truth and Honesty will conquer when they pass through Smithfield flames: Prisons confine them not; Death kills them not; No siege will force an honest Conscience by famine to give up. He that cannot endure the sight of his own excrements must not dish them up to another mans Table, lest they be sent him back again. And more freedom is allowed against Peace-Breakers in Frays and Wars, than towards men that are in a quieter sort of Controversie. § XX. P. 36.37. You say [For your various Definitions of Justification, Constitutive, Sentential, Executive, in Foro Dei, in foro Conscientiae, &c.— What need this heap of distinctions here, when you know the question betwixt us is of no other Justification, but the Constitutive in foro Dei, that which maketh us righteous in the Court of Heaven? I have nothing to do with you yet in any else, as your own Conscience will tell you when you please: If you have not more Justice and civility for your intelligent Readers, I wish you