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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 I do not well understand the meaning of the Author you refer me to: For he saith, [That Christ did actually and ipso facto, deliver us from the curse and obligation; yet we do not instantly apprehend and perceive it, nor yet possess it; but only we have actual right to all the fruits of his death: As a prisoner in a far Country who is ransomed, but knoweth it not, nor can enjoy liberty till a Warrant be produced, &c.
But I doe not well understand the meaning of the Author you referre me to: For he saith, [That Christ did actually and ipso facto, deliver us from the curse and obligation; yet we do not instantly apprehend and perceive it, nor yet possesse it; but only we have actuall right to all the fruits of his death: As a prisoner in a farre Countrey who is ransomed, but knoweth it not, nor can enjoy liberty till a Warrant be produced, &c.
But 1. Whether a man may fitly be said actually, and ipso facto, to be delivered and discharged, who is not at all delivered, but only hath right to deliverance, I doubt.
But 1. Whether a man may fitly be said actually, and ipso facto, to be delivered and discharged, who is not at all delivered, but onely hath right to deliverance, I doubt.
2. Knowledge and possession of a deliverance ⟨p. 314⟩are far different things: A man may have possession and no knowledge in some cases; or if he have both, yet the procuring of knowledge is a small matter, in comparison of possession.
2. Knowledge and posiession of a deliverance ⟨p. 314⟩