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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.
For you, my Friends, whom Christ hath committed to my Teaching and Oversight, as to an unworthy Usher under him in his School, and Steward in his House, and of his Mysteries; I publish this for your sakes and use:
For you, my Friends, whom Christ hath committed to my Teaching and Oversight, as to an unworthy Vsher under him in his Schoole, and Steward in his House, and of his Mysteries; I publish this for your sakes and use:
1. Because I have still thought that points controverted are better written than preached, and read than heard; especially, where the greatest part of the Auditory is uncapable of understanding them.
2. Yet is this Doctrine of so great concernment, and so near the Foundation, that of all the controversies agitated in the Church, there's few that do better deserve your study, and few that I am so loath you should be ignorant of. It is my exceeding joy, that God hath kept you in his distracted age, from doting about questions that engender strife, and hath given you to cleave to the most fundamental, undoubted, and practical Truths, and to spend your time in practice, and peace, and promoting the salvation of the ignorant ⟨image 7⟩about you, when others are taken up in censuring their brethren, renting the Church, opposing the truth, or wrangling about lesser things; which are quite above their understandings. Hold on this way; and if you have not in it more Communion with Christ, more growth in Grace, and on your Death-beds a more comfortable review of your lives, and at last a better reckoning made thereof, then the other, then say, I have deceived you. Yet, as I would have you neglect no truth, so especially what time •ou can spare for controversy, let it chiefly be spent upon these that are so weighty. Be ashamed that men should hear you disputing about Circumstantills of Discipline, Baptism, Supper, &c. before you know how to be justified before GOD, or understand the Doctrine of the Covenants, Redemption, Faith, Obedience, &c,