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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.
This opinion (in my judgement) containeth a great many of mistakes.
1. It supposeth us to have been in Christ, at least in legal title, before we did believe, or were born; and that not only in a general and conditional sense as all men, but in a special as the justified; indeed we are elected in Christ before the foundation of the world, but that is a term of diminution, and therefore doth not prove that we were then in him; Neither Gods Decree or foreknowledge gives us any legal title.
1. It supposeth us to have been in Christ, at least in legall title, before we did beleeve, or were born; and that not onely in a generall and conditionall sense as all men, but in a speciall as the justified; indeed we are elected in Christ before the foundation of the world, but that is a terme of diminution, and therefore doth not prove that we were then in him; Neither Gods Decree or foreknowledge gives us any legall title.
2. It teacheth imputation of Christ Righteousness in so strict a sense, as will neither stand with reason, nor the Doctrine of Scripture, ⟨p. 32⟩much less with the phrase of Scripture which mentioneth no imputation of Christ or his Righteousness to us at all; and hath given great advantage to the Papists against us in this Doctrine of Justification.
2. It teacheth imputation of Christ Righteousnesse in so strict a sense, as will neither stand with reason, nor the Doctrine of Scripture, ⟨p. 32⟩much lesse with the phrase of Scripture which mentioneth no imputation of Christ or his Righteousnesse to us at all; and hath given great advantage to the Papists against us in this Doctrine of Justification.