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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.
But the great Argument which he and all of his judgement do trust to, is this: If the surety ⟨p. 309⟩so undertake or discharge the debt, that the creditor rest satisfied with that undertaking or discharge; then is the debtor free from the debt. But Christ hath so undertaken and discharged the particular debts of the Elect; therefore the Elect are freed.
Answ. 1. Payment is refusable, or not refusable: That payment which is of the same thing in the Obligation, either by our selves or our Delegate, is not by the Creditor refusable; so that if we had paid it, or Christ had been our Delegate, appointed by us to pay the same that was due, then God could not have refused to take that payment: But Christ being appointed to this by the Father, and not by us; and also paying not the very same, but the value, God might have refused the payment.
2. Where the payment is not refusable, there the discharge of the debtor is not refusable, but doth follow ipse facto: But where the payment is refusable, (as here it was) the Creditor may accept it upon what terms he pleases, and choose to give the Debtor an absolute discharge; so that it being the full agreement and pleasure both of the Creditor and the Surety, the father and the son, that the Debtor should have no discharge by the payment but upon a certain condition by him to be performed, no doubt he shall have none till he have performed it.
2. Where the payment is not refusable, there the discharge of the debtor is not refusable, but doth follow ipse facto: But where the payment is refusable, (as here it was) the Creditor may accept it upon what termes he pleases, and chuse to give the Debtor an absolute discharge; so that it being the full agreement and pleasure both of the Creditor and the Surety, the father and the sonne, that the Debtor should have no discharge by the payment but upon a certaine condition by him to be performed, no doubt he shall have none till he have performed it.