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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
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Contr. 7. What Righteousness of Christ is it that is ours, and imputed to us; the Passive, the Active, the Habitual, or the Divine, or all?
Answ. Divines are here fallen into four Opinions.
I. Many of our most famous Divines say, that it is only Christs sufferings that are imputed to us as our Righteousness to Justification; being Justitia Merit•, the rest being Justitia Personae, to qualify Christ to merit for us. Thus Paraeus, Scultetus, Wendeline, Beckman, Ursine, Piscator, Olevian, Camero with his followers, and many more: These are far from thinking that we fulfilled all the Law in Christ, or are righteous because he fulfilled it.
I. Many of our most famous Divines say, that it is only Christs sufferings that are imputed to us as our Righteousness to Justification; being Justitia Merit•, the rest being Justitia Personae, to qualifie Christ to merit for us. Thus Paraeus, Scultetus, Wendeline, Beckman, Ʋrsine, Piscator, Olevian, Camero with his followers, and many more: These are far from thinking that we fulfilled all the Law in Christ, or are righteous because he fulfilled it.