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…

To give thee the History of the conception and nativity of these Aphorisms, & the reason why I trouble the world with more Books, which I blame in others; understand, that this is but an Appendix to another Treatise going to the Press on a more excellent Subject: Also, that having occasion therein to touch upon▪ Matth. 25. 35. I was desired to explain in what sense it is, that Christ giveth the reason of his sentence in judgement from mens works: In answer hereto (and to clear some other incident doubts of the like nature) I wrote these Positions or Aphorisms? ⟨image 7⟩which when some had got, they complained of obscure brevity, and desired some fuller explication; which when I had done, that which before was but two or three leaves, annexed as an Appendix to the fore-mentioned Treatise, did swell to this bigness, that I was fain to let it go alone. Could I have got Copies enow for my own friends, whom I am bound to instruct, other men had not been like to have been troubled with it; If thou please, thou mayest let it pass without thine observation: If otherwise, it is so small, that it will take up but little of thy time to read it, nor add much to the common burden. Some few passages here are which I am not so clear and confident in my self; As the nature of the Death threatened in the first Covenant; The necessity of the punctual performance or execution of all threatenings; The interest of Christs Active Obedience to those Laws which did bind men in innocency, in the work of satisfaction, as conjoined with his Passive Obedience to make up the same price. But as these are but few, so I am not utterly at a loss concerning them, but seem to discern a strong probability of what I have written therein,

To give thee the History of the conception and nativity of these Aphorismes, & the reason why I trouble the world with more Bookes, which I blame in others; understand, that this is but an Appendix to another Treatise going to the Presse on a more excellent Subject: Also, that having occasion therein to touch upon▪ Matth. 25. 35. I was desired to explaine in what sence it is, that Christ giveth the reason of his sentence in judgement from mens works: In answer hereto (and to cleare some other incident doubts of the like nature) I wrote these Positions or Aphorismes?