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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.
The proper effect of the Act is to lay the Foundation from whence the Relation doth arise. And the same Act which layeth the Foundation doth cause the Relation, without the intervention of any other. Suppose but the subjectum fundamentum & terminus, and the Relation will unavoidably follow, by a mere resultancy. The direct effect ⟨p. 114⟩therefore of Gods Active Justification must be a real effect, though not upon the sinner, yet upon something else for him; and thence will his Passive Justification follow. Now what transient Act this is, and what its immediate real Effect, who hath unfolded? I dare not be to confident in so dark a point: but it seemeth to me, that this justifying transient Act is the enacting or promulgation of the new Covenant, wherein Justification is conferred upon every Believer. Here, 1. The passing and enacting this Grant is a transient Act. 2. So may the continuance of it (as I think.) 3. This Law or Grant hath a moral improper Action, whereby it may be said to pardon or justify; which properly is but virtual justifying. 4. By this Grant God doth, 1. Give us the Righteousness of Christ, to be ours when we believe: 2. And disableth the Law to oblige us to punishment, or to condemn us: 3. Which real Foundation being thus laid, our Relations of [Justified and Pardoned in title of Law] do necessarily result.
The proper effect of the Act is to lay the Foundation from whence the Relation doth arise. And the same Act which layeth the Foundation doth cause the Relation, without the intervention of any other. Suppose but the subjectum fundamentum & terminus, and the Relation will unavoydably follow, by a meer resultancy. The direct effect ⟨p. 114⟩therefore of Gods Active Justification must be a reall effect, though not upon the sinner, yet upon something else for him; and thence will his Passive Justification follow. Now what transient Act this is, and what its immediate reall Effect, who hath unfolded? I dare not be to confident in so dark a point: but it seemeth to me, that this justifying transient Act is the enacting or promulgation of the new Covenant, wherein Justification is conferred upon every Beleever. Here, 1. The passing and enacting this Grant is a transient