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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
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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.
7. This opinion maketh Christs sufferings (by consequence) to be in vain, both to have been suffered needlesly 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 therere is no use for suffering for disobedience.
8. It fondly supposeth a medium betwixt one that is just, and one that is guilty; and a difference betwixt one that is just, and one that is no sinner; one that hath his sin or gui•t taken away, and one that hath his unrighteousness taken away: It is true, in brutes and insensibles, that are not subjects capable of justice, there is a medium betwixt just and unjust, and innocency and justice are not the same. There is a negative injustice which denominateth the subject non-justum, but not injustū, where Righteousness is not due: But where there is the debitum habendi, where Righteousness ought to be, & is not, there is no negative unrighteousness, but primitive: As there is ⟨p. 34⟩no middle betwixt strait and crooked, so neither between Conformity to the Law, (which is Righteousness,) and Deviation from it, which is unrighteousness.)
8. It fondly supposeth a medium betwixt one that is just, and one that is guilty; and a difference betwixt one that is just, and one that is no sinner; one that hath his sin or gui•t taken away, and one that hath his unrighteousness taken away: It is true, in bruits and insensibles, that are not subjects capable of justice, there is a medium betwixt just and unjust, and innocency and justice are not the same. There is a negative injustice which deneminateth the subject non-justum, but not injustū, where Righteousness is not due: But where there is the debitum habendi, where Righteousness ought to be, & is not, there is no negative unrighteousness, but primative: As there is