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IMPUTATION. The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill. Wolff, Sec. 3.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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(30) Thus, Como's theorists of "imputative" antinomianism focused on Christ's redemptive blessings but kept themselves anchored to holy writ and presented themselves as the true heirs of the Protestant magisterium.
Redeeming free grace: Thomas Hooker and the contested language of salvation
Thus an early "imputative" strain of antinomianism--wherein believers appeared "sinless" in the eyes of God--would morph into more extreme "perfectionist" positions that claimed true believers could experience the divine within.
Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England
Puritans found in the covenant of grace a means of managing the imitatio Christi--a means that came stocked with a bounty of grace and a regulatory standard, a means that offered righteousness both imputative and infused, and that distributed a confluence of causes in a scheme that left all initiative with the Deity while respecting the subordinate causality of saintly hearts, minds, and wills.
The covenantal quietism of Tobias Crisp (1)

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