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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.
Yet some, who think that the death threatened did consist in out present miseries and temporal death only, do also think that the threatening is fully executed upon the sinners, and that Christ hath only delivered us from the accidental duration of it, but not prevented the execution.
Yet some, who think that the death threatned did consist in out present miseries and temporal death onely, do also think that the threatning is fully executed upon the sinners, and that Christ hath onely delivered us from the accidentall duration of it, but not prevented the execution.
If I could think that the threatening intended no punishment to the soul further, after it is separated from the body, then I should think as they.
If I could think that the threatning intended no punishment to the soule further, after it is separated from the body, then I should think as they.
The 3. Question is, How it can stand with▪ the Truth and Justice of God to dispense▪ ⟨p. 25⟩with his Threats? Concerning his Justice, the question is not difficult, & I shall say nothing to that; all the question is, how to reconcile this dispensation with Gods truth. Here you must distinguish, 1. Betwixt the letter of the Law and the sense. 2. Between the Law and the end of the Law. 3. Between a Threat with exception either expressed or reserved, and that which hath no exception. 4. Between a threatening which only expresseth the desert of the sin, and what punishment is due, and so falleth only under the will of precept, and that which also intendeth the certain prediction of event, and so falleth under the will of purpose also. And now I answer: