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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.
1. It yet remains under dispute whether the Threat speak not de eventu, as to the sin, though but de jure, as to the sinner? And then the Truth of God would forbid a dispensation as to the sin,
1. It yet remaines under dispute whether the Threat speak not de eventu, as to the sinne, though but de jure, as to the sinner? And then the Truth of God would forbid a dispensation as to the sinne,
2. Though the Threatening do not flatly determine of the execution de eventu; yet it intimates a strong probability of it, & seems to tell the world, that ordinarily the Law-giver will proceed according thereto, and gives the sinner strong grounds to expect as much. ⟨p. 29⟩Therefore if God should relax his Law, much more if he should wholly dispense with it by remission, the Law would seem to lose much of its authority, and the Law-giver be esteemed mutable.
2. Though the Threatning doe not flatly determine of the execution de eventu; yet it intimates a strong probability of it, & seemes to tell the world, that ordinarily the Law-giver will proceed according thereto, and gives the sinner strong grounds to expect as much. ⟨p. 29⟩Therefore if God should relax his Law, much more if he should wholly dispence with it by remission, the Law would seem to lose much of its authority, and the Law-giver be esteemed mutable.
3. Besides, as no good Laws are lightly to be reversed, so, much less such as are so agreeable to order, and the nature of God and so solemnly enacted as this was.