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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. 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?
5. No man dare affirm, that we are immediatly 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?
I know the common answer is, that justification is an immanent act, and therefore from eternity; but Sanctification is a transient act. But I have disproved this in the Treatise, and cleared to you, that justification is also a transient Act: Otherwise Socinianism were the soundest doctrine, that Christ never needed to satisfy, if we were justified from eternity. Yet (to confess the truth) I was long deceived with this Argument my self, taking it upon trust from Dr. Twice and Mr. Pemble, (whom I valued above most other men; and so continued of that same judgement with these Authors you allege, and remained long