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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 God hate all the workers of iniquity, and we are all by nature the children of wrath, and without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that believeth not is condemned already; then certainly the Elect while they are unbelievers are not actually, de facto, no nor in personal Right, delivered from this hatred, wrath, displeasure and condemnation. But the major is the very words of Scripture; therefore, &c.
2. If God hate all the workers of iniquity, and we are all by nature the children of wrath, and without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that beleeveth not is condemned already; then certainly the Elect while they are unbeleevers are not actually, de facto, no nor in personall Right, delivered from this hatred, wrath, displeasure and condemnation. But the major is the very words of Scripture; therefore, &c.
3. If we are justified only by Faith, then certainly not before Faith: But we are justified only by Faith; therefore, &c.
3. If we are justified onely by Faith, then certainly not before Faith: But we are justified onely by Faith; therefore, &c.
I do in charity suppose that you will not answer so grossly, as to say, we are justified in foro Dei, before Faith, and only in foro conscientiae, by Faith, till you can find one word in Scripture which saith, that an unbeliever is justified, If I thought you were of this opinion, I should think it an easy task to manifest its falsehood.
I doe in charity suppose that you will not answer so groslely, as to say, we are justified in foro Dei, before Faith, and onely in foro conscientiae, by Faith, till you can finde one word in Scripture which saith, that an unbeleever is justified, If I thought you were of this opinion, I should think it an easie task to manifest its falshood.