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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.
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 ⟨p. 89⟩same kind of justification of both, and so doth tend to seduce the hearers to a dangerous error. 2. For if it be understood in the worst sense, it will overthrow the Righteousness of Christ imputed, and the whole scope of the Gospel, and will set up the doctrine of Justification by Works. For if God do justify our Works from any legal Accusation, (as he doth our persons,) then it will follow, That our Works are just and consequently we are to be justified by them. There is no room for Scripture-justification where our own Works are not first acknowledged unjustifiable: because there is no place for Satisfaction and Justification thereby from another, where we plead the Justification of our own Works in respect of the same Law. Justification of Works is a sufficient ground for Justification by Works: seeing the justness of his dispositions and actions is the ground of denominating the person just, and that according to the primary and most proper kind of Righteousness as is expressed in the distinction of it, pag. 98, 99.
1. IT is improper in the best sence: 1. Because it is contrary to the Scripture use of the word [Iustifying]: 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) implyeth Accusation; but the esteeming of a righteous action to be as it is, doth not imply any accusation. 3. This speech, joyning Justification of Persons and Actions together, doth seem to intimate the