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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.
I could here heap up a multitude of orthodox Writers, that do call our personal Righteousness by the title of [Evangelical] as signifying from what Rule it doth receive its Name.
I could here heap up a mulitude of orthodox Writers, that do call our personall Righteousness by the title of [Evangelicall] as signifying from what Rule it doth receive its Name.
The second sort that show their gross ignorance, of the nature of Righteousness, are the Antinomians, (and some other simple ones whom they have misled) who if they do but hear a man talk of a Righteousness in himself; or in any thing he can do, or making his own duty either his Righteousness, or conducible thereto; they startle at such Doctrine, and even gnash the teeth, as if we preached flat Popery, yea as if we cried down Christ, and set up our selves: The ignorant wretches not understanding, the difference between the two sorts of Righteousness; that of the old ⟨p. 81⟩Covenant, which is all out of us in Christ; and that of the New Covenant, which is all out of Christ in our selves: (though wrought by the power of the Spirit of Christ.)
The second sort that shew their gross ignorance, of the nature of Righteousness, are the Antinomians, (and some other simple ones whom they have misled) who if they doe but hear a man talk of a Righteousness in himself; or in any thing he can do, or making his own duty either his Righteousness, or conducible thereto; they startle at such Doctrine, and even gnash the teeth, as if we preached flat Popery, yea as if we cryed down Christ, and set up our selves: The ignorant wretches not understanding, the difference between the two sorts of Righteousness; that of the old ⟨p. 81⟩Covenant, which is all out of us in Christ; and that of the New Covenant, which is all out of Christ in our selves: (though wrought by the power of the Spirit of Christ.)