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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 XXV.
Yet is it an improper speech of some Divines, That Christ first justifieth our persons, and then our duties and actions: And except by [justifying] they mean, his esteeming them to be a fulfilling of the Gospel Conditions, and so unjust, it is unsound and dangerous, as well as improper.
YEt is it an improper speech of some Divines, That Christ first justifieth our persons, and then our duties and actions: And except by [justifying] they mean, his esteeming them to be a fulfilling of the Gospell Conditions, and so unjust, it is unsound and dangerous, as well as improper.
EXPLICATION.
1. IT is improper in the best sense: 1. Because it is contrary to the Scripture use of the word [Justifying]: which is the acquitting of us from the charge of breaking the Law, and not from the charge of violating the new Covenant, 2, It is against the nature of the thing; seeing Justification (as you shall see anon) implieth Accusation; but the esteeming of a righteous action to be as it is, doth not imply any accusation. 3. This speech, joining Justification of Persons and Actions together, doth seem to intimate the