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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. Though the Decalogue doth not mention each particular duty in the Gospel, yet doth it command obedience to all that are or shall be specified; and expresseth the genus of every particular duty. And though it were not a duty from the general precept, till it was specified in the Gospel, yet when it once is a duty, the neglect of it is a sin against the Decalogue. For instance; The Law saith, Thou shalt take the Lord for thy God, and consequently believe all that he saith to be true; and obey him in all that he shall particularly command you: The Gospel revealeth (what it is that is to be believed, and ⟨p. 97⟩saith, This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom the Father hath sent. Joh. 6. 28, 29. The affirmative part of the second Commandment is, Thou shalt worship God according to his own institution: The Gospel specifieth some of this instituted Worship, viz. Sacraments, &c. So that the neglect of Sacraments is a breach of the second Commandment: And Unbelief is a breach of the first. This may help you to answer that question, Whether the Law without the Gospel be a sufficient Rule of Life? Answ. As the Lords Prayer is a sufficient Rule of Prayer: It is sufficient in its own kind, or to its own purposes: It is a sufficient general Rule for duty; but it doth not enumerate all the particular instituted species. Yet here, the Gospel revealing these institutions, is not only the new Covenant it self; but the doctrine of Christ, which is an adjunct of that Covenant also.
1. THough the Decalogue doth not mention each particular duty in the Gospel, yet doth it command obedience to all that are or shall be specified; and expresseth the genus of every particular duty. And though it were not a duty from the generall precept, till it was specified in the Gospel, yet when it once is a duty, the neglect of it is a sin against the Decalogue. For instance; The Law saith, Thou shalt take the Lord for thy God, and consequently beleeve all that he saith to be true; and obey him in all that he shall particularly command you: The Gospel revealeth (what it is that is to be beleeved, and