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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.
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 ⟨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.)
9. It maketh our Righteousness, to consist of two parts, viz. The putting away of our guilt, and the Imputation of Righteousness, i. e. 1. Removing the crookedness; 2. Making them straight.