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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.
Ans. The Controversie is de re, or de nomine. De re we agree that a man must be made Righteous before he is Reputed so. De nomine I deny that St. Paul by imputing doth mean making us Righteous. [Greek or Hebrew] is by all confessed to signify Accounting, Reckoning or Reputing: Making us Righteous goeth before Reckoning it to us on account. John Goodwin will tell you of many more senses of Imputation than you recite, and more considerable.
Ans. The Controversie is de re, or de nomine. De re we agree that a man must be made Righteous before he is Reputed so. De nomine I deny that St. Paul by imputing doth mean making us Righteous. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is by all confessed to signifie Accounting, Reckoning or Reputing: Making us Righteous goeth before Reckoning it to us on account. John Goodwin will tell you of many more senses of Imputation than you recite, and more considerable.
§ 15. II. You suppose an Imputation of Righteousness to us, which was not ours before that Imputation. Ans. Again de re there is a Donation of such: But de nomine I deny that this is it that the Scripture calleth Imputing.
You make this to contain two Acts, and you Name three, 1. A grant or Donation of the thing it self to be ours. 2. A will of dealing with us accordingly. 3. An actual so dealing with us.