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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. If it be meant also of the curse of the Old Covenant, then it cannot be so understood, as if the Covenant it self were abrogate for the reasons I have before given in the Treatise.
3. Nor yet that any are absolutely discharged from the curse, till they perform the condition required for their discharge.
4. But thus far the Law is taken down, that our Redeemer hath bought us from that ⟨p. 312⟩necessity of perishing that lay upon us for our transgressing that Law; so that no man is now condemned for the mere violation of that first Covenant; and so he hath taken the Law into his own hands, to charge only upon those that break the conditions of the New Covenant.
4. But thus farre the Law is taken down, that our Redeemer hath bought us from that ⟨p. 312⟩necessity of perishing that lay upon us for our transgressing that Law; so that no man is now condemned for the meer violation of that first Covenant; and so he hath taken the Law into his owne hands, to charge only upon those that break the conditions of the New Covenant.