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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.
The three former are all concomitant consequents of one and the same Act of God by his Gospel: The freedom from obligation to punishment is called Remission: the freedom from Accusation and Condemnation is called Justification; and the freedom from enmity and displeasure is called Reconciliation, which are all at once, & do all denote but our Restoration to our former state. Adoption and Marriage-Union do add the rest.
THe three former are all concomitant consequents of one and the same Act of God by his Gospell: The freedom from obligation to punishment is called Remission: the freedom from Accusation and Condemnation is called Justification; and the freedom from enmity and displeasure is called Reconciliation, which are all at once, & do all denote but our Restauration to our former state. Adoption and Marriage-Union do add the rest.
Some may blame me for putting Union among the relative Graces, and not rather among those that make a real physical change upon us, as Sanctification and Glorification. But I do herein, according to my judgment, whereof to give the full reasons here would be too large a digression. I know that Caspar Streso, and divers others, do place it in an unconceivable, unexpressable medium between these two, which yet must be called a Real Union, more then a Relative, though not Physical: I will not now stand on •his […] ⟨p. 134⟩knowledge a Real Foundation of a Relative Union, and a Real Communion following thereupon: But am very fearful of coming so near, as to make Christ and sinners one real Person, (as the late elevated Sect among us do,) lest blasphemously I should deify man, and debase Christ to be actually a sinner. And if we are not one real Person with Christ, then one what? It sufficeth me to know as abovesaid, and that we are one with Christ in as strict a bond of relation as the wife with the husband, and far stricter; and that we are his body mystical, but not natural. That we shall be one with him, as he is one with the Father, is true: But that [as] doth not extend the similitude to all respects, but to a truth in some.