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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. Nay, it clearly, implieth the contrary. For Decreeing is a term of Diminution, as to justifying. He that saith he is purposed to free you from prison, &c. implieth that as yet it is not done. To be justified or saved in Decree, is no more but that God decreeth to justify ⟨p. 318⟩and save us; and therefore sure it is yet undone.
2. Nay, it clearely, implyeth the contrary. For Decreeing is a term of Diminution, as to justifying. He that saith he is purposed to free you from prison, &c. implyeth that as yet it is not done. To be justified or saved in Decree, is no more but that God decreeth to justifie ⟨p. 318⟩and save us; and therefore sure it is yet undone.
4. If we are exhorted while we are unbelievers, to be reconciled to God, and to believe for remissions of sins; then sure we are not yet reconciled nor remitted; But the former is evident in Scripture; therefore, &c.
4. If we are exhorted while we are unbeleevers, to be reconciled to God, and to beleeve for remissions of sins; then sure we are not yet reconciled nor remitted; But the former is evident in Scripture; therefore, &c.
5. No man dare affirm, that we are immediately upon Christs death, delivered actually, and ipso facto, from the power or presence of sin, nor from afflictions and death, which are the fruits of it; nor yet that we are freed from the distance and separation from God which sin procured. And why then should we think that we were immediately delivered from the guilt and condemnation?