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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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Joh. 16.27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God. Many such passages are in Scripture.
Our opinion is, 1. That it is better to justify and expound the Scripture, than flatly to deny it: If Scripture so oft say, that Faith is reckoned or Imputed for Righteousness, it becometh not Christians, to say, It is not: But to show in what sense it is, and in what it is not. For if it be so Imputed in no sense, the Scripture is made false: If in any sense▪ it should not be universally denied but with distinction.
Our opinion is, 1. That it is better to justifie and expound the Scripture, than flatly to deny it: If Scripture so oft say, that Faith is reckoned or Imputed for Righteousness, it becometh not Christians, to say, It is not: But to shew in what sence it is, and in what it is not. For if it be so Imputed in no sence, the Scripture is made false: If in any sence▪ it should not be universally denied but with distinction.
2. We hold, that in Justification there is considerable, 1. The Purchasing and Meritorious Cause of Justification freely given in the new Covenant. This is only Christ's Sufferings and Righteousness, and so it is Reputed of God, and Imputed to us. 2. The Order of Donation, which is, On Condition of Acceptance; And so 3. The Condition of our Title to the free Gift by this Covenant; And that is, Our Faith, or Acceptance of the Gift according to its nature and use. And thus God Reputeth Faith, and Imputeth it to us, requiring but this Condition of us (which also he worketh in us) by the Covenant of Grace; whereas perfect Obedience ⟨p. 29⟩