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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.
I find but one thing in the Book that needeth any other Answer, than to peruse what is already Written: And that is about Baptizing Naked: My Book was written 1649. A little before, common uncontrolled Fame was, that not far from us in one place many of them were Baptized naked, reproving the Clothing way as Antiscriptural: I never heard […] deny this Report: I conversed with divers of […] Church, who denied it not: As […] denied it to me, so I never read one that did […] to my knowledge: He now tells me Mr. ⟨p. 75⟩Fisher, Mr. Hagar, and Mr. Tombs did: Let any Man read Mr. Tombs Answer to me, yea and that Passage by him now cited, and see whether there be a word of denial: Mr. Fisher or Hagar I never saw: Their Books I had seen, but never read two Leaves to my remembrance of Mr. Fishers, though I numbered it with those that were written on that Subject, as well I might: I knew his Education and his Friends, and I saw the Great Volume before he turned Quaker, but I thought it enough to read Mr. Tombs and others that wrote before him, but I read not him, nor all Mr. Haggar's: If I had, I had not taken them for competent Judges of a fact far from them, and that three years after: Could they say, that no one ever did so? The truth is that three years after, mistaking my words, as if I had affirmed it to be their ordinary practice (as you may read in them) which I never did, nor thought, they vehemently deny this: (And such heedless reading occasioneth many of Mr. Danvers Accusations). I never said that no Man ever denied it ▪ for I have not read all that ever was written, nor spoken with all the World: But no Man ever denied it to me, nor did I ever read any that denied it. And in a matter of Fact, if that Fame be not credible, which is of things Late and Near, and not Contradicted by any one of the most interested Persons themselves, no not by Mr. Tombs himself, we must surcease humane Converse: Yet do I not thence undertake that the same was true, either of those Persons, or such as other Writers beyond Sea have said it off. I saw not any one Baptized by Mr. Tombs or any other in River or elsewhere by Dipping at Age: If you do no such thing, ⟨p. 76⟩I am sorry that I believed it, and will recant it. Had I not seen a Quaker go naked through Worcester at the Assizes, and read the Ranters Letters full of Oaths, I could have proved neither of them.