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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 XLI.
That saying of our Divines [That Justification is perfected at first, and admits of no degrees] must be understood thus, That each of those Acts which we call Justification, are in their own kind perfect at once; and that our Righteousness is perfect and admits not of degrees. But yet as the former Acts, called Justification, do not fully, and in all respects, procure our freedom, so they may be said to be imperfect, and but degrees toward our full and perfect Justification at the last Judgment.
THat saying of our Divines [That Iustification is perfected at first, and admits of no degrees] must be understood thus, That each of those Acts which we call Iustification, are in their own kind perfect at once; and that our Righteousness is perfect and admits not of degrees. But yet as the former Acts, called Iustification, do not fully, and in all respects, procure our freedom, so they may be said to be imperfect, and but degrees toward our full and perfect Iustification at the last Iudgment.
THESIS XLII.
There are many such steps toward our final and full Justification; As▪ 1. Gods eternal Love and Decree of justifying us. 2. Christs undertaking for satisfying and justifying. 3. His actual satisfying by paying the price. 4. His own Justification, as the public Person, at his Resurrection. 5. That change which is made in our Relation upon our Regeneration, or receiving the vital seed of Grace, where, among others, that is contained, which is called the habit of Faith: these infants are capable of. 6. The change of our Relation upon our actual Faith. 7. The pacifying our own hearts is by the evidence of Faith, and assurance there-upon, and witness of Conscience, and Testimony, and Seal of the Spirit. 8. The Angels judging us righteous, and rejoicing therein. 9. Our Justification before Men. 10. And our final Justification at the great Judgment.