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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. 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⟩are farre 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.
3. Our knowledge therefore doth not give us possession; so that the similitude fails, for it is the Creditors knowledge and satisfaction that is requisite to deliverance. And our Creditor was not in a far and strange country, but knew immediately, and could either have made us quickly know, or turned us free before we had known the cause.
3. Our knowledge therefore doth not give us possession; so that the similitude failes, for it is the Creditors knowledge and satisfaction that is requisite to deliverance. And our Creditour was not in a farre and strange countrey, but knew immediately, and could either have made us quickly know, or turned us free before we had knowne the cause.
4. Nor can it easily be understood, how God can so long deny us the possession of Heaven, if we had such absolute actual Right (as he speaketh) so long ago; which seemeth to express a jus ad rem & in re.
4. Nor can it easily be understood, how God can so long deny us the possession of Heaven, if wee had such absolute actuall Right (as he speaketh) so long ago; which seemeth to expresse a jus ad rem & in re.