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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. XVII.
Therefore as there are two Covenants, with their distinct Conditions: so is there a twofold Righteousness, and both of them absolutely necessary to Salvation.
THerefore as there are two Covenants, with their distinct Conditions: so is there a twofold Righteousness, and both of them absolutely necessary to Salvation.
EXPLICATION.
AS Sin is defined to be [Greek or Hebrew] a Transgression of the Law. 1. Joh. 3. 4. So Righteousness is a Conformity to the Law. Therefore as there is a twofold Law or Covenant; so must there be accordingly a two-fold Righteousness; whether both these be to us necessary is all the doubt. If the first Covenant be totally repealed, then indeed we need ⟨p. 67⟩not care for the righteousness of that Covenant, in respect of any of our personal actions: but only in respect of Adams first, and ours in him, But I have proved before that it is not repealed: otherwise the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, would not be of a very narrow extent; if it were a covering only to our first transgression. I take it for granted therefore, that he must have a two-fold Righteousness answerable to the two Covenants, that expecteth to be justified. And the usual confounding of these two distinct Righteousnesses, doth much darken the controversies about Justification.