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The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…
The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines ... in two books : the first, a breviate of fifty controversies about justification ... : the second upon the sudden reviving of antinomianism ... and the re-printing of Dr. Crisp's sermons with additions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1690
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.
Contr. 6. In what sense is Christs Righteousness imputed to us?
Answ. It is accounted of God the valuable consideration, satisfaction and merit (attaining Gods ends) for which we are (when we consent to the Covenant of Grace,) forgiven and justified against the condemning Sentence of the Law of Innocency, and reconciled and accepted of God to Grace and Glory.
Q. But did not Christ represent our persons in his Righteousness, so that it is imputed to us as ours, as if we our selves had been and done what he was and did as righteous?
Ans. This being the very heart of all the Controversy, should be decided only by Scripture, and nothing added or diminished. That Christ is the second Adam, and called [Greek or Hebrew] a Sponsor, Surety ⟨p. 23⟩or Interposer, and a Mediator between God and Man, that suffered for us, the just for the unjust, a price, and a sacrifice, is all found in scripture. Wise and peaceable men here will be as fearful of humane Inventions and Additions as in Discipline or Ceremonies at least. But because all are not such, we must speak to men as they are. There are several sorts of Sureties or Sponsors.