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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.
THESIS. XIII.
IF this were not so, but that Christ had abrogated the first Covenant, then it would follow, 1. That no sin but that of Adam, and final Unbelief, is so much as threatened with death, or that death is explicitly (that is, by any Law) due to it or deserved by it. For, what the Law in force doth not threaten, that is not explicitly deserved, or due by Law. 2. It would follow, That Christ dyed not to prevent or remove the wrath and curse so deserved or due to us for any but Adams sin, nor to pardon our sins at all: but only to prevent our desert of wrath and curse, and consequently to prevent our need of pardon. 3. It would follow, ⟨p. 54⟩That against eternal wrath at the day of Judgment, we must not plead the pardon of any sin, but the first, but our own non-desert of that wrath, because of the repeal of that Law before the sin was committed. All which consequences seem to me unsufferable, which cannot be avoided if the Law be repealed.
IF this were not so, but that Christ had abrogated the first Covenant, then it would follow, 1. That no sin but that of Adam, and final Vnbelief, is so much as threatned with death, or that death is explicitely (that is, by any Law) due to it or deserved by it. For, what the Law in force doth not threaten, that is not explicitely deserved, or due by Law. 2. It would follow, That Christ dyed not to prevent or remove the wrath and curse so deserved or due to us for any but Adams sin, nor to pardon our sins at all: but only to prevent our desert of wrath and curse, and consequently to prevent our need of pardon. 3. It would follow, ⟨p. 54⟩That against eternal wrath at the day of Iudgment, we must not plead the pardon of any sin, but the first, but our own non-desert of that wrath, because of the repeal of that Law before the sin was committed. All which consequences seem to me unsufferable, which cannot be avoyded if the Law be repealed.