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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.
EXPLICATION.
Object. 1 Doth not the Apostle say, that as touching the Righteousness which is in the Law, he was blameless? Phil. 3. 6. Ans. That is, He ⟨p. 68⟩•o exactly observed the Ceremonial Law, and the external part of the Moral Law, that no man could blame him for the breach of them. But this is nothing to such a keeping of the whole Covenant, as might render him blameless in the sight of God: otherwise he would not have esteemed it so lightly.
Object. 1 DOth not the Apostle say, that as touching the Righteousness which is in the Law, he was blameless? Phil. 3. 6. Ans. That is, He ⟨p. 68⟩•o exactly observed the Ceremoniall Law, and the externall part of the Morall Law, that no man could blame him for the breach of them. But this is nothing to such a keeping of the whole Covenant, as might render him blameless in the sight of God: otherwise he would not have esteemed it so lightly.
Object. 2. There are degrees of Sin. He that is not yet a sinner in the highest degree, is he not so far Righteous by a personal Righteousness? Christ satisfied only for our sin; so far as our actions are not sinful, so far they need no pardon nor satisfaction. And consequently, Christs righteousness and our own works, do concur to the composing of our perfect Righteousness. Ans. Though this objection doth puzzle some, as if there were no escaping this Popish self-exalting Consequence; yet by the help of the fore-going grounds, the vanity of it may be easily discovered. And that thus.