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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.
5. So it maketh Christ to have fulfilled the preceptive part of the Law in our stead and room in as strict a sense, as he did in our room bear the punishment, which will not hold good (though for our sakes he did both.)
5. So it maketh Christ to have fulfilled the preceptive part of the Law in our stead and roome in as strict a sense, as he did in our room beare the punishment, which will not hold good (though for our sakes he did both.)
6. It supposeth the Law to require both obedience and suffering in respect of the same time and actions, which it doth not. And whereas they say, that the Law requireth ⟨p. 33⟩suffering for what is past, and Obedience for the future; this is to deny that Christ hath satisfied for future sins. The time is near when those future sins will be past also; what doth the Law require then? If we do not obey for the future, then we sin; if we sin, the Law requires nothing but suffering for expiation.
6. It supposeth the Law to require both obedience and suffering in respect of the same time and actions, which it doth not. And whereas they say, that the Law requireth ⟨p. 33⟩suffering for what is past, and Obedience for the future; this is to deny that Christ hath satisfied for future sinnes. The time is neere when those future sins will be past also; what doth the Law require then? If we doe not obey for the future, then we sin; if we sin, the Law requires nothing but suffering for expiation.
7. This opinion maketh Christs sufferings (by consequence) to be in vain, both to have been suffered needlessly by him, and to be needless also now to us: For if we did perfectly obey the Law in Christ, (or Christ for us, according to that strict imputation,) then there is no use for suffering for disobedience.