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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.
2. That Faith doth not properly justify through any excellency that it hath above other Graces, or any more useful property, ⟨p. 144⟩may appear thus: 1. Then the praise would be due to Faith. 2. Then love would contend for a share, if not a priority. 3. Then Faith would justify, though it had not been made the Condition of the Covenant.
2. That Faith doth not properly justifie through any excellency that it hath above other Graces, or any more usefull property, ⟨p. 144⟩may appear thus: 1. Then the praise would be due to Faith. 2. Then love would contend for a share, if not a priority. 3. Then Faith would justifie, though it had not been made the Condition of the Covenant.
Let those therefore take heed, that make Faith to justify, merely because it apprehendeth Christ: which is its natural, essential property.
Let those therefore take heed, that make Faith to justifie, meerely because it apprehendeth Christ: which is its naturall, effentiall property.
3. That it is Faith in a proper sense that is said to justify, and not Christs Righteousness only which it receiveth, may appear thus. 1. From the necessity of two-fold righteousness, which I have before proved, in reference to the two-fold Covenant. 2. From the plain and constant Phrase of Scripture, which saith, He that believeth shall be justified: and that we are justified by Faith: and that faith is imputed for righteousness. It had been as easy for the Holy Ghost to have said, that Christ only is imputed, or his righteousness only, or Christ only justifieth, &c. If he had so meant. He is the most excusable in an error, that is lead into it by the constant express phrase of Scripture. 3. From the nature of the thing: For the effect is ascribed, to the several Causes (though not alike) and in some sort to the Conditions, Especially, me-thinks they that would have Faith to be the Instrument of Justification, should not deny