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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.
IT is of very great use to understand which of these Wills every one of Gods particular words or works do fall under.
1. That Predestination, Election, and Reprobation, are under this Will of Purpose only, is undoubted.
2, Divines use to mention a Covenanting between the Father and the Son about the work of Redemption: It is called a Covenant ⟨p. 6⟩but improperly, speaking after the manner of men. Properly it is but the Decree of God concerning Christs Incarnation, his work, and his sufferings, and the success of these, and what God will further do thereupon. This therefore falls under this Genius, and so doth the Fathers giving the Elect to Christ, which is but part of this.
2, Divines use to mention a Covenanting between the Father and the Son about the work of Redemption: It is called a Covenant ⟨p. 6⟩