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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.
Yet is it truly and fitly said that Christ is our Righteousness, that is, the purchaser and giver of it; and that he is made of God to us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption, on the same account: Yea though some deny it, his Righteousness may be called the material cause of our Righteousness, as ours is our Jus ad impunttatem & vitam, because it is the matter of it's meritorious cause. For if Adam had merited Life himself, his meritorious Acts and Habits would have been fitly called, the matter of his Righteousness, that is, of the fundamentum Relationis. Yet this is the difference: Adams Right or Relation of Just, would have resulted immediately from his own Acts and Habits compared with the Law; whereas ours resulteth from Christs Merits or Righteousness, not immediately as ours in it self, but mediately as paid for us to God, and the Benefit (of Right and Righteousness) given us by the Covenant, for the said Merit of our Mediator.
Yet is it truly and fitly said that Christ is our Righteousness, that is, the purchaser and giver of it; and that he is made of God to us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption, on the same account: Yea though some deny it, his Righteousness may be called the material cause of our Righteousness, as ours is our Jus ad impunttatem & vitam, because it is the matter of it's meritorious cause. For if Adam had merited Life himself, his meritorious Acts and Habits would have been fitly called, the matter of his Righteousness, that is, of the fundamentum Relationis. Yet this is the difference: Adams Right or Relation of Just, would have resulted immediately from his own Acts and Habits c••pared with the Law; whereas ours resulteth from Christs Merits or Righteousness, not immediately as ours in it self, but mediately as paid for us to God, and the Benefit (of Right and Righteousness) given us by the Covenant, for the said Merit of our Mediator.
§ 16. Next you say, that this Imputation supposeth not the Person to have done and suffered himself what is imputed to him, and note their mistake that suppose the Doctrine of Imputation to imply that Christ did commit our Sins, and we perform his Righteousness.