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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.
The 5. Question is, May we not fear lest God may dispense with his Promises as well as his Threats? I answer:
The 5. Question is, May we not feare lest God may dispense with his Promises as well as his Threats? I answer:
1. He did not dispense with his Threatening, but upon a valuable consideration.
1. He did not dispense with his Threatning, but upon a valuable consideration.
2. No; for though the Promise as well as the Threat do belong to the Law, and so discover what is due, rather then what shall come to pass, yet the thing promised being once our due, cannot be taken from us without our consent: and so, as Grotius saith, Ex promisione jus aliquod acquiritur ei cui facta est promtssio; justice bindeth to give all to another that is his due, but not always and absolutely to inflict upon an offender as much punishment as he deserveth.
2. No; for though the Promise as well as the Threat doe belong to the Law, and so discover what is due, rather then what shall come to passe, yet the thing promised being once our due, cannot be taken from us without our consent: and so, as Grotius saith, Ex promisione jus aliquod acquiritur ei cui facta est promtssio; justice bindeth to give all to another that is his due, but not alwayes and absolutely to inflict upon an offender as much punishment as he deserveth.