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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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9. I shall less trust a confounding ignorant Reader or Writer, that hath not an accurate defining and distinguishing Understanding, and hath not a mature, exercised, discerning Knowledge than ever I have done; and especially if he be engaged in a Sect (which alas, how few parts of the Christian World escape!) For I here (and in many others) see, that you have no way to seem Orthodox with such, but to run quite into the contrary Extreme: And if I write against both Extremes, I am taken by such Men as this, but to be for both and against both, and to contradict my self. When I write against the Persecutors, I am one of the Sectaries, and when I write against the Sectaries, I am of the Persecutors side: If I belie not the Prelatists, I am a Conformist: If I belie not the Anabaptists, Independents, &c. I am one of them: If I belie not the ••pists, I am a Papist; if I belie not the Arminians, I am an Arminian; if I belie not the Calvinists, ⟨p. 79⟩I am with Pseudo-Tilenus and his Brother, purus putus Puritanus, and one Qui totum Puritanismum totus spirat (which Joseph Allen too kindly interpreteth): If I be for lawful Episcopacy, and lawful Liturgies and Circumstances of Worship, I am a temporizing Conformist: If I be for no more, I am an intollerable Non-Conformist (at this time forced to part with House, and Goods, and Library, and all save my Clothes, and to possess nothing, and yet my Death (by six months Imprisonment in the Common Goal) is sought after and continually expected. If I be as very a Fool, and as little understand my self, and as much contradict my self, as all these Confounders and Men of Violence would have the World believe, it is much to my cost, being hated by them all while I seek but for the common peace.
9. I shall less trust a confounding ignorant Reader or Writer, that hath not an accurate defining and distinguishing Understanding, and hath not a mature, exercised, discerning Knowledg than ever I have done; and especially if he be engaged in a Sect (which alas, how few parts of the Christian World escape!) For I here (and in many others) see, that you have no way to seem Orthodox with such, but to run quite into the contrary Extream: And if I write against both Extreams, I am taken by such Men as this, but to be for both and against both, and to contradict my self. When I write against the Persecutors, I am one of the Sectaries, and when I write against the Sectaries, I am of the Persecutors side: If I belie not the Prelatists, I am a Conformist: If I belie not the Anabaptists, Independants, &c. I am one of them: If I belie not the pists, I am a Papist; if I belie not the Arminians, I am an Arminian; if I belie not the Calvinists,