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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.
11. The like vain distinction it maketh between delivering from death, and giving title to life, or freeing us from the penalty, and giving us the reward; For as when all sin of omission and commission is absent, there is no unrighteousness; so when all the penalty is taken away, both that of pain, and that of loss, the party is restored to his former happiness. Indeed there is a greater superadded decree of life and glory procured by Christ more then we lost in Adam: But as that life is not opposed to the death or penalty of the ⟨p. 35⟩Covenant, but to that of the second; so is it the effect of Christs passive, as well as of his active Righteousness.
So you see the mistakes contained in this first Opinion, about the Imputation of Christs Righteousness to us.
The maintainers of it (beside some few able men) are the vulgar sort of unstudied Divines, who having not ability or diligence to search deep into so profound a Controversy, do still hold that opinion which is most common and in credit.
The maintainers of it (beside some few able men) are the vulgar sort of unstudyed Divines, who having not ability or diligence to search deep into so profound a Controversie, do still hold that opinion which is most common and in credit.