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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 LVI.
BY what hath been said, it is apparent, That Justification in Title may be ascribed to sever all Causes. 1. The principal efficient Cause is God. 2. The Instrumental is the Promise or Grant off the new Covenant. 3. The Procatarctick Cause, (•o far as God may be said to be moved by any thing out of himself, speaking after the manner of men,) is fourfold. 1. And chiefly the Satisfaction of Christ. 2. The Intercession of Christ, and supplication of the sinner. 3. The necessity of the sinner. 4. The opportunity and advantage for the glorifying his Justice and Mercy. The first of these is the Meritorious Cause; the second the moral persuading Cause; the third is the Objective, and the fourth is the Occasion. 2. Material Cause properly it hath none: If you will improperly call Christs Satisfaction the remote matter, I contend not. 3. The formal Cause is the acquitting of the sinner from Accusation and Condemnation of the Law, or the disabling the Law to accuse or condemn him. 4. The final Cause is the Glory of God, and of the Mediator, and the deliverance of the sinner. 5. The Causa sine quâ non; is both Christs Satisfaction, and the Faith of the justified.
BY what hath been said, it is apparent, That Iustification in Title may be ascribed to sever all Causes. 1. The principall efficient Cause is God. 2. The Instrumentall is the Promise or Grant off the new Covenant. 3. The Procatarctick Cause, (•o far as God may be said to be moved by any thing out of himself, speaking after the manner of men,) is fourfold. 1. And chiefly the Satisfaction of Christ. 2. The Intercession of Christ, and supplication of the sinner. 3. The necessity of the sinner. 4. The opportunity and advantage for the glorifying his Iustice and Mercy. The first of these is the Meritorious Cause; the second the morall perswading Cause; the third is the Objective, and the fourth is the Occasion. 2. Materiall Cause properly it hath none: If you will improperly call Christs Satisfaction the remote matter, I contend not. 3. The formall Cause is the acquitting of the sinner from Accusation and Condemnation of the Law, or the disabling the Law to accuse or condemn him. 4. The finall Cause is the Glory of God, and of the Mediator, and the deliverance of the sinner. 5. The Causa sine quâ non; is both Christs Satisfaction, and the Faith of the justified.