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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.
5. And indeed, it seemeth to me a full definition of all pardon and justification which is here to be expected, which he layeth down; He saith, Christ did deliver us from the curse, and take away the Obligation which was against us ipso facto. And I think to be justified, is but to be freed from the curse or condemnation; and to be pardoned, is nothing else but to be freed from the obligation to punishment. And is remission and justification the immediate effect of Christs death?
5. And indeed, it seemeth to me a full definition of all pardon and justification which is here to bee expected, which he layeth downe; Hee saith, Christ did deliver us from the curse, and take away the Obligation which was against us ipso facto. And I think to be justified, is but to be freed from the curse or condemnation; and to be pardoned, is nothing else but to be freed from the obligation to punishment. And is remission and justification the immediate effect of Christs death?
What ever this Writer thinketh in this, is nothing to us: But because I would not have you so palpably and dangerously err, let me say a little more against this mistake. You may remember I have oft told you, of how great moment it is in Divinity, to be able soundly to distinguish betwixt immediate & Mediate Effects of Christs Death. (I think Tho. Moore meant the Immediate and Mediate Effects, which he calleth Ends which hath caused a great many pages about the Ends of Christs Death, to be written by his Antagonists to little purpose.) Now I would have you know, that this actual Remission and Justification, are no Immediate, but Mediate effects of Christs Death; no, nor a personal right thereto if there be any such thing distinct from actual freedom.
What ever this Writer thinketh in this, is nothing to us: But because I would not have you so palpably and dangerously erre, let mee say a little more against this mistake. You may remember I have oft told you, of how great moment it is in Divinity, to be able soundly to distinguish betwixt immediate & Mediate Effects of Christs Death. (I think Tho. Moore meant the Immediate and Mediate Effects, which he calleth Ends which hath caused a great many pages about the Ends of Christs Death, to be written by his Antagonists to little purpose.) Now I would have you know, that this actuall Remission and Justification, are no Immediate, but Mediate effects of Christs Death; no, nor a personall right thereto if there be any such thing distinct from actuall freedome.