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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.
Dr. Willet on Rom. 2. contr. 3. 7.
Good works are required as a condition in those which are to be saved, not as a meritorious cause of their salvation.
Good workes are required as a condition in those which are to be saved, not as a meritorious cause of their salvation.
The meaning of this sentence the doors of the law shall be justified, is the same: God will approve, justify, reward them that do the works of the Law, whether Jew or Gentile: Yet it followeth not that a man is therefore justified by the works of the Law: But God approveth and rewardeth the workers, not the hearers and professors: So here the Apostle treateth not of the cause of justification, which is faith without the works of the law; But of the difference between such as shall be justified, and such as are not. Faïus. They only which have a lively Faith, which worketh and keepeth the Law in part, and supplieth the rest which is wanting in themselves by the perfect obedience of Christ, they shall be justified; not those which only profess the Law, and keep it not. The Apostle then here showeth who shall be justified, not for what.
The meaning of this sentence the doors of the law shall be justified, is the same: God will approve, justifie, reward them that do the works of the Law, whether Jew or Gentile: Yet it followeth not that a man is therefore justified by the works of the Law: But God approveth and rewardeth the workers, not the hearers and professours: So here the Apostle treateth not of the cause of justification, which is faith without the works of the law; But of the difference between such as shall be justified, and such as are not. Faïus. They onely which have a lively Faith, which worketh and keepeth the Law in part, and supplyeth the rest which is wanting in themselves by the perfect obedience of Christ, they shall be justified; not those which onely professe the Law, and keep it not. The Apostle then here sheweth who shall be justified, not for what.