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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.
But these things which you draw out of me here unseasonably; I am handling in a fitter place, (in a small Tract of Universal Redemption:) But the last week I have received Amiraldus against Spanhemius exercitations, who hath opened my very heart, almost in my own words; and hath so fully said the very same things which I intended, for the greater part, that I am now unresolved whether to hold my hand, or to proceed.
But these things which you draw out of me here unseasonably; I am handling in a fitter place, (in a small Tract of Vniversall Redemption:) But the last week I have received Amiraldus against Spanhemius exercitations, who hath opened my very heart, almost in my own words; and hath so fully said the very same things which I intended, for the greater part, that I am now unresolved whether to hold my hand, or to proceed.
The Lord give you to search after the truth in love, with a humble, unbiased, submissive soul; neither losing it through negligence and undervaluing, nor yet diverted from it by inferior controversies, nor perverted by self-confidence, nor forestalled by prejudice, nor blinded by passion, nor lost in contentions, nor subverted by the now-ruling spirit of giddiness and levity, nor yet obscured by the ⟨p. 320⟩confounding of things that differ; that so by the conduct of the Word and Spirit, you may attain the sight of amiable naked truth, and your understanding may be enlightened, and your soul beautified by the reflection and participation of her light and beauty, that your heart being ravished with the sense of her goodness, and awed by her Authority, you may live here in the constant embracements of her, and cordial obedience to her, till you are taken up to the prime eternal Truth and Goodness.
The Lord give you to search after the truth in love, with a humble, unbyassed, submissive soul; neither losing it through negligence and undervaluing, nor yet diverted from it by inferiour controversies, nor preverted by self-confidence, nor forestalled by prejudice, nor blinded by passion, nor lost in contentions, nor subverted by the now-ruling spirit of giddinesse and levity, nor yet obscured by the