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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.
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⟩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 successe 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.
3. Those promises of taking the hard heart out of us, and giving hearts of flesh, one heart, a new heart, and of putting his fear in us, that we shall not depart from him, &c. are generally taken to be Absolute promises (for here is no Condition expressed or intimated) made to all the Elect and only them, as not yet regenerate; and so not to any either named or qualified persons. These are not therefore fulfilled upon condition of our Faith, or made ours by believing, as other promises are: For Faith is part of the thing promised, and the persons are unregenerate, and consequently unbelievers when these promises are fulfilled to them. Therefore these Absolute promises are but mere gracious predictions what God will do for his Elect, the comfort whereof can be received by no man till the benefit be received, and they be to him fulfilled: Therefore as all mere predictions, so also these promises do fall under the Will of Purpose, and not of Precept.