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Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…
Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousness, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kidderminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousnesse, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kederminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.
Hague: printed by Abraham Brown, 1655
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.
2. And as strange and abhorred to me, is the other part of his doctrine, viz. That Faith only taketh knowledge of justification formerly wrought.
2. And as strange and abhorred to me, is the other part of his doctrine, viz. That Faith onely taketh knowledge of justification formerly wrought.
And his Arguments are as weak as the doctrine erroneous.
1. The first is Because the Object must needs go before the Act.
Answ. But is it not pity that so excellent a Doctor should think that justification (& that not only in offer, but in actual being) should be the object of justifying Faith? I am ashamed to confute so senseless an assertion. Sure it is Christ, and not actual justification that is the object. When the Scripture saith, that Whosoever believeth shall be justified is it a learned Exposition which thus interpreteth it? [You that are elect, are already justified, and if you will believe it, you shall know it;]