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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.
THESIS XXXVIII.
Justification, in Title of Law, is a gracious Act of God, by the Promise or Grant of the new Covenant, acquitting the Offender from the Accusation and Condemnation of the old Covenant, upon consideration of the Satisfaction made by Christ, and accepted by the sinner.
IVstification, in Title of Law, is a gracious Act of God, by the Promise or Grant of the new Covevant, acquitting the Offender from the Accusasation and Condemnation of the old Covenant, upon consideration of the Satisfaction made by Christ, and accepted by the sinner.
EXPLICATION.
Here you may see 1. That pardon of sin, and this Justification in Law, are not punctually and precisely alone: 2. And yet the difference is very small. The chief difference lieth in this, That the Terminus a quo of Remission, is the obligation to punishment; but the Terminus of Justification, (or the evil that it formally and directly doth free us from,) is the Laws Accusation and Condemnation: Now though the difference between these two be very narrow, and rather respective then real, yet a plain difference there is: For though it be one and the same Commination of the Law, by which men are both obliged to punishment, accused as guilty, and condemned for that guilt, yet these are not all one, though it is also true, that they all stand or fall together.