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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.
I Will not stand to mention all those other Distinctions of Justification which are common in others, & not so necessary or pertinent to my purposed scope. You may find them in Mr Bradshaw, Mr John Goodwin, and Alstedius Distinctions and Definitions, &c.
I Will not stand to mention all those other Distinctions of Justification which are common in others, & not so necessary or pertinent to my purposed scope. You may finde them in Mr Bradshaw, Mr Iohn Goodwin, and Alstedius Distinctions and Definitions, &c.
The difference between Justification in Title of Law, and in Sentence of Judgment, is apparent at the first view: Therefore I need not explain it. It is common, when a man hath a good cause, and the Law on his side, to say, The Law justifieth him, or he is just in Law, or ⟨p. 119⟩he is acquit by the Law; and yet he is more fully and completely acquit by the sentence of the Judge afterward. In the former sense we are now justified by faith, as soon as ever we believe: In the latter sense we are justified at the last Judgment. The title of [Declarative] is too narrow for this last: For the sentence of judicial absolution doth more then barely to declare us justified. I call the former [virtual] not as it is in it self considered, but as it standeth in relation to the latter.
The difference between Justification in Title of Law, and in Sentence of Judgment, is apparent at the first view: Therefore I need not explain it. It is common, when a man hath a good cause, and the Law on his side, to say, The Law justifieth him, or he is just in Law, or ⟨p. 119⟩