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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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I cited abundance of plain Texts to this purpose in my Confession, pag. 57. &c. Of which book I add, that when it was in the press, I procured those three persons whom I most highly valued for judgment, Mr. Gataker, (whose last work it was in this World) Mr. Vines, and lastly Arch-Bishop Usher to read it over, except the Epistles (Mr. Gataker read only to pag. 163.) and no one of them advised me to alter one word, nor signified their dissent to any word of it. But I have been long on this: to proceed in the History. —
I cited abundance of plain Texts to this purpose in my Confession, pag. 57. &c. Of which book I add, that when it was in the press, I procured those three persons whom I most highly valued for judgment, Mr. Gataker, (whose last work it was in this World) Mr. Vines, and lastly Arch-Bishop Ʋsher to read it over, except the Epistles (Mr. Gataker read only to pag. 163.) and no one of them advised me to alter one word, nor signified their dissent to any word of it. But I have been long on this: to proceed in the History. —
The same year that I wrote that book, that most Judicious excellent man Joshua Placaeus of Saumours in France, was exercised in a Controversy conjunct with this; How far Adams sin is imputed to us. And to speak truth, at first in the Theses Salmuriens. ⟨p. 33⟩Vol. 1. he seemed plainly to dispute against the Imputation of Adam's actual sin, and his arguments I elsewhere answer.) And Andr. Rivet wrote a Collection of the Judgment of all sorts of Divines for the contrary. But after he vindicated himself, & showed that his Doctrine was, that Adam's fact is not immediately imputed to each of us, as if our persons as persons had been all fully represented in Adam's person (by an arbitrary Law or Will of God) or reputed so to be: But that our Persons being Virtually or Seminally in him, we derive from him first our Persons, and in them a corrupted nature, and that nature corrupted and justly deserted by the Spirit of God, because it is derived from Adam that so sinned: And so that Adams fact is imputed to us mediately, mediante natura & Corruption, but not primarily and immediately.