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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.
3. I call this Act [a Discharging] as being the proper term in Law to express it by. We were before charged by the Law: we are by this Act discharged.
4. I call it a discharge of [the Offender:] For an offender is the only capable object or recipient of it. There can be no pardon where there is no offender.
5. I call it a discharging [from the Obligation to Punishment.] For. 1. You must look at this whole process as legal, and not as referring chiefly to Gods secret judgment or thoughts. Therefore when it is called a freeing man from the wrath of God, you must understand it only of the wrath threatened in the Covenant, and so from [the obligation to Punishment.] You must not conceive of the change ⟨p. 111⟩in God, but in the sinners relation, and consequently in the sense and sentence of the Law, as to him. 2. The common word by which this terminus a quo, or rather the evil which this pardon doth directly free us from, is expressed, is Guilt. But because the word Guilt is variously used, sometimes referring only to the Fact, sometimes to the desert of Punishment, and sometime to the dueness of Punishment or the Laws obliging the Offender to bear it; I have therefore here taken it in this last expression, because I think that Guilt is taken away only in this last sense; as I shall further open anon. Therefore many define Guilt only in this last sence, Reatus est Obligatio ad Poenam. This Obligation though expressed only in the Covenant, yet ariseth also from the Fact: For if the Covenant had not been broken, it had not obliged to suffering; but still to duty only.
5. I call it a discharging [from the Obligation to Punishment.] For. 1. You must look at this whole process as legall, and not as referring chiefly to Gods secret judgment or thoughts. Therefore when it is called a freeing man from the wrath of God, you must understand it onely of the wrath threatened in the Covenant, and so from [the obligation to Punishment.] You must not conceive of the change