A26977:741
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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6. It resolveth me more to enquire less after the Answers to Mens Books than I have done: And I shall hereafter think never the worse of a Mans writings, for hearing that they are answered: For I see it is not only easy for a Talking Man to talk on, and to say something for or against any thing, but it is hard for them to do otherwise, even to hold their Tongues, or Pens, or Peace: And when I change this Mind, I must give the greatest belief to Women that will talk most, or to them that live longest, and so are like to have the last word, or to them that can train up militant Heirs and Successors to defend them when they are dead, and so propagate the Contention. If a sober Consideration of the first and second writing (yea of positive Principles) will not inform me, I shall have little hope to be much the wiser for all the rest.
6. It resolveth me more to enquire less after the Answers to Mens Books than I have done: And I shall hereafter think never the worse of a Mans writings, for hearing that they are answered: For I see it is not only easie for a Talking Man to talk on, and to say something for or against any thing, but it is hard for them to do otherwise, even to hold their Tongues, or Pens, or Peace: And when I change this Mind, I must give the greatest belief to Women that will talk most, or to them that live longest, and so are like to have the last word, or to them that can train up militant Heirs and Successors to defend them when they are dead, and so propagate the Contention. If a sober Consideration of the first and second writing (yea of positive Principles) will not inform me, I shall have little hope to be much the wiser for all the rest.
7. I am fully satisfied that even good […] are here so far from Perfection, that they must bear ⟨p. 78⟩with odious faults and injuries in one another, and be habituated to a ready and easy forbearing and forgiving one another. I will not so much as describe or denominate Mr. Danvers Citations of Dr. Pierce, to prove my Popery and Crimes, nor his passages about the Wars, and about my Changes, Self-contradictions, and Repentances, lest I do that which savoureth not of Forgiveness: O what need have we all of Divine Forgiveness!