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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.
This is laid down to prevent the Objection which might arise from the fore-going Doctrine: For many are ready to ask, If Christ dyed not for sin as it is against the Gospel-Covenant, then how are such sins pardoned to Believers? I answer, in the fore-expressed way: For certainly the Gospel cannot be said to remit the punishment which it never threatened, (further then as it is only implicitly due;) And that which it doth threaten it doth never remit.
THis is layd down to prevent the Objection which might arise from the fore-going Doctrine: For many are ready to ask, If Christ dyed not for sin as it is against the Gospell-Covenant, then how are such sins pardoned to Beleevers? I answer, in the fore-expressed way: For certainly the Gospel cannot be said to remit the punishment which it never threatened, (further then as it is only implicitely due;) And that which it doth threaten it doth never remit.
THESIS XXXVI.
The pardoning of sin is a gracious act of God, discharging the Offender by the Gospel-Promise, or grant from the Obligation, to punishment, upon consideration of the satisfaction made by Christ, accepted by the sinner, and pleaded with God.