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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.
7. Besides the exceeding love of God that is manifested in this suffering of his Son, and the great engagements that are laid upon the sinner.
7. Besides the exceeding love of God that is manifested in this suffering of his Son, and the great engagemens that are laid upon the sinner.
They that will avoid all the supposed inconveniences of this Doctrine of Gods dispensing with his Threatenings, must needs affirm, that the offenders do suffer as much, and the same which was threatened.
They that will avoid all the supposed inconveniencies of this Doctrine of Gods dispencing with his Threatnings, must needs affirme, that the offenders do suffer as much, and the same which was threatned.
(8.) Whether we are justified only by Christs Passive Righteousness, or also by his Active, is a very great dispute among Divines. By his Passive Righteousness is meant not only his death, but the whole course of his humiliation, from the Assumption of the humane nature to his Resurrection. Yea, even his Obediential Actions so far as there was any suffering in them, and as they are considered under the notion of Suffering, and not of Duty or Obedience. By his Active Righteousness is meant the Righteousness of his Actions, as they were a perfect obedience to the Law. The chief point of difference and difficulty lieth higher, How the Righteousness of Christ is made ours? Most of our ordinary Divines say, that Christ did as properly obey in our room and stead, as he did suffer ⟨p. 31⟩in our stead; and that in Gods esteem and in point of Law we were in Christ obeying and suffering, and so in him we did both perfectly fulfil the Commands of the Law by Obedience, and the threatenings of it by bearing the penalty; and thus (say they) is Christs Righteousness imputed to us, viz. his Passive Righteousness for the pardon of our sins and delivering us from the penalty; his Active Righteousness for the making of us righteous, and giving us title to the kingdom: And some say, the habitual Righteousness of his humane nature instead of our own habitual Righteousness; yea some add the righteousness of the divine nature also.