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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. Most think that the Threatening had this reserved exception, [Thou shalt dye, i. e. by thy self, or thy surety.] And though it be sinful in man to speak with mental reservations when he pretends to reveal his mind, yet not in God, because as he is subject to no Law, so he is not bound to reveal to us all his mind, nor doth he indeed pretend any such thing.
2. Most think that the Threatning had this reserved exception, [Thou shalt dye, i. e. by thy selfe, or thy surety.] And though it be sinfull in man to speak with mentall reservations when he pretends to reveale his mind, yet not in God, because as he is subject to no Law, so he is not bound to reveale to us all his minde, nor doth he indeed pretend any such thing.
3. So that the sense of the Law is fulfilled.
4. But the special answer that I give, is this, ⟨p. 26⟩When Threatenings are merely parts of the Law, and not also predictions of event and discoveries of Gods purpose thereabouts, then they may be dispensed with without any breach of Truth: For as when God saith, [Thou shalt not eat of the Tree &c.] the meaning is only [It is thy duty not to eat] and not that eventually he should not eat: So when he saith (Thou shalt die the death) The meaning is, (Death shall be the due reward of thy sin, and so may be inflicted for it at my pleasure) and not that he should certainly suffer it in the event. And I judge, that except there be some note added whereby it is apparent, that God intended also the prediction of event, no mere Threatening is to be understood otherwise but as it is a part of the Law, and so speaks of the dueness of punishment only, as the Precept speaks of the dueness of obeying.