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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.
Here it will be expected, that I answer to these Questions. 1. Why I call the Gospel the Instrumental Cause? 2. Why I call Christs Satisfaction the meritorious Cause, ⟨p. 136⟩and the Causa sine quâ non? 3. Why I make not Christs Righteousness the material Cause? 4. Why I make not the Imputation of it the formal Cause? 5. Why I make not Faith the Instrumental Cause? 6. Why I make it only the Causa sine quâ non?
HEre it will be expected, that I answer to these Questions. 1. Why I call the Gospell the Instrumentall Cause? 2. Why I call Christs Satisfaction the meritorious Cause, ⟨p. 136⟩and the Causa sine quâ non? 3. Why I make not Christs Righteousness the materiall Cause? 4. Why I make not the Imputation of it the formall Cause? 5. Why I make not Faith the Instrumentall Cause? 6. Why I make it only the Causa sine quâ non?
To the first Question: As a Lease or Deed of Gift is properly a mans Instrument in conveying the thing leased or given; and as the Kings Pardon under his Hand and Seal is his proper Instrument of pardoning & justifying the Malefactor, so is the new Covenant Gods Instrument in this case, or, as it were, his Mouth, by which he pronounceth a believer justified.
To the first Question: As a Lease or Deed of Gift is properly a mans Instrument in conveying the thing leased or given; and as the Kings Pardon under his Hand and Seal is his proper Iustrument of pardoning & justifying the Malefactor, so is the new Covenant Gods Instrument in this case, or, as it were, his Mouth, by which he pronounceth a beleever justified.