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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.
For my part I confess that I am not satisfied in his distinction of Mediate and Immediate Imputation: I see not, but our Persons as derived from Adam, being supposed to be in Being, we are at once Reputed to be such as Virtually sinned in him, and such as are deprived of God's Image. And if either must be put first, me-thinks it should rather be the former, we being therefore deprived of God's Image (not by God, but by Adam) because he sinned it away from himself. It satisfieth me much more, to distinguish of our Being and so sinning in Adam Personally and Seminally, or Virtually: we were not Persons in Adam when he sinned; therefore we did not so sin in him: And it is a fiction added to God's Word, to say that God (because he would do it) reputed us to be what we were not. But we were Seminally in Adam as in Causâ naturali, who was to produce us out of his very essence: And therefore that kind of being which we had in him, could not be innocent when he was guilty: And when we had our Natures and Persons from him, we are justly reputed to be as we are, the offspring of one that actually sinned: And so when our Existence and Personality maketh us capable Subjects, we are guilty Persons of his sin; though not with so plenary a sort of Guilt as he.
For my part I confess that I am not satisfied in his distinction of Mediate and Immediate Imputation: I see not, but our Persons as derived from Adam, being supposed to be in Being, we are at once Reputed to be such as Virtually sinned in him, and such as are deprived of God's Image. And if either must be put first, me-thinks it should rather be the former, we being therefore deprived of God's Immage (not by God, but by Adam) because he sinned it away from himself. It satisfieth me much more, to distinguish of our Being and so sinning in Adam Personally and Seminally, or Virtually: we were not Persons in Adam when he sinned; therefore we did not so sin in him: And it is a fiction added to God's Word, to say that God (because he would do it) reputed us to be what we were not. But we were Seminally in Adam as in Causâ naturali, who was to produce us out of his very essence: And therefore that kind of being which we had in him, could not be innocent when he was guilty: And when we had our Natures and Persons from him, we are justly reputed to be as we are, the offspring of one that actually sinned: And so when our Existence and Personality maketh us capable Subjects, we are guilty Persons of his sin; though not with so plenary a sort of Guilt as he.