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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.
4. But if he do mean only a right to future possession (for such there is,) yet I confess it is beyond my conceiving, how in regard of the relative part of our deliverance, that right and the possession should stand at so many years distance. To have right to Gods favour and acceptance, and to have possession ⟨p. 315⟩of that favour; to have right to the remission of sin, and adoption, & to have possession of these, do seem to me to be of nearer kin. Except he should think that possession of favour is nothing but the knowledge or feeling of it; and that possession of pardon is the like; & that Faith justifieth us but in foro conscientiae: But I will not censure so hardly till I know it.
4. But if he doe meane onely a right to future possession (for such there is,) yet I confesse it is beyond my conceiving, how in regard of the relative part of our deliverance, that right and the possession should stand at so many yeeres distance. To have right to Gods favour and acceptance, and to have possession ⟨p. 315⟩of that favour; to have right to the remission of sinne, and adoption, & to have possession of these, do seeme to me to be of neerer kin. Except he should think that possession of favour is nothing but the knowledge or feeling of it; and that possession of pardon is the like; & that Faith justifieth us but in foro conscientiae: But I will not censure so hardly till I know it.
Indeed there is a justification by public declaration at the great judgement, which much differeth from a mere Right. But our justification by faith here is but a justifying in the sense of the Law, or giving us right to that full justification: So that To have right to it, and to have possession of it in point of Law or Right; is to me all one: For what doth Faith give us possession of in its justifying Act, but this legal right?
Indeed there is a justification by publike declaration at the great judgement, which much differeth from a meer Right. But our justification by faith here is but a justifying in the sence of the Law, or giving us right to that full justification: So that To have right to it, and to have possession of it in point of Law or Right; is to me all one: For what doth Faith give us possession of in its justifying Act, but this legall right?