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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.
1. The repealing of the Law, and the relaxing of it. 2. Between a dispensation absolute and respective. 3. Between the alteration of the Law, and the alteration of the Subjects relation to it. 4. Between a Discharge conditional, with a suspension of execution, and a Discharge absolute. And ⟨p. 52⟩so I resolve the question thus;
1. The Law of Works is not abrogated, or repealed, but dispensed with, or relaxed. A Dispensation is (as Grotius defineth it) an act of a Superior, whereby the obligation of a Law in force is taken away, as to certain persons and things.
2. This Dispensation therefore is not total or absolute, but respective. For, 1. though it dispense with the rigorous execution, yet not with every degree of execution. 2. Though the Law be dispensed with as it containeth the proper subjects of the penalty, viz. the parties offending, and also the circumstances of duration, &c. Yet in regard of the mere punishment abstracted from person and circumstances, it is not dispensed with: for to Christ it was not dispensed with: His satisfaction was by paying the full value.
2. This Dispensation therefore is not total or absolute, but respective. For, 1. though it dispence with the rigorous execution, yet not with every degree of execution. 2. Though the Law be dispenced with as it containeth the proper subjects of the penalty, viz. the parties offending, and also the circumstances of duration, &c. Yet in regard of the meer punishment abstracted from person and circumstances, it is not dispenced with: for to Christ it was not dispenced with: His satisfaction was by paying the full value.