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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.
But that which I call the Legislative or ⟨p. 3⟩Preceptive will, hath another object, viz. not event but duty; and is Metonymically rather then Metaphorically called Gods Will, it being the effect and revelation of his real unfeigned will. For God doth not seem to Will that this or that shall be our duty, and so speak after the manner of men (according to the sense of their Voluntas signi) but he willeth it unfeignedly,
But that which I call the Legislative or ⟨p. 3⟩Preceptive will, hath another object, viz. not event but duty; and is Metonymically rather then Metaphorically called Gods Will, it being the effect and revelation of his reall unfeigned will. For God doth not seeme to Will that this or that shall be our duty, and so speake after the manner of men (according to the sense of their Voluntas signi) but hee willeth it unfeignedly,
Neither is this Distinction the same with that which differenceth Gods revealed Will from his secret. For his revealed Will containeth also part of the Will of his purpose, and all the will of precept: The mere prophesies, and also the promises and threatenings, so far as they point out future event, are the Revealed part of the Will of Gods purpose. Tilenus himself in his conference with Camero seems to approve of this Distinction; where he distinguisheth of Gods Will according to its Object, viz. vel quod ipse vult facere, vel quod a nobis vult fieri: If in this last branch he speak not de officio & of this preceptive will, rather then de eventu and of the will of purpose, then he can mean it only of a conditional will of purpose.
Neither is this Distinction the same with that which differenceth Gods revealed Will from his secret. For his revealed Will containeth also part of the Will of his purpose, and all the will of precept: The meere prophesies, and also the promises and threatnings, so far as they point out future event, are the Revealed part of the Will of Gods purpose. Tilenus himselfe in his conference with Camero seemes to approve of this Distinction; where he distinguisheth of Gods Will according to its Object, viz. vel quod ipse vult facere, vel quod a nobis vult fieri: If in this last branch he speake not de officio & of this preceptive will, rather then de eventu and of the will of purpose, then he can meane it onely of a conditionall will of purpose.