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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
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5. That Faith's receiving Christ and his righteousness, is the remote of secondary, and not the formal Reason, why it doth Justify, appeareth thus. 1. I would ask any dissenter this Question. Suppose that Christ had done all that he did for sinners, and they had believed in him, thereupon, without any Covenant promising Justification to this faith: Would this faith have justified them? By what Law? Or whence will they plead their Justification ⟨p. 147⟩at the bar of God? Well: but suppose that Christ having done what he did for us, that he should in framing the New Covenant have put in any other Condition; and said [whosoever loveth God shall by virtue of my satisfaction be Justified.] Would not this love have Justified? No doubt of it. I conclude then thus: The receiving of Christ, is as the silver of this coin: the Gospel-promise is as the Kings stamp which maketh it currant for justifying. If God had seen meet to have stamped any thing else, it would have passed currently. Yet take this. Faith is, even to our own apprehension, the most apt and suitable condition that God could have chosen: (for as far as we can reach to know;) There cannot be a more Rational & apt condition of delivering a redeemed Malefactor from Torment, then that he thankfully accept the pardon, and favour of redemption, and hereafter take his Redeemer for his Lord.
5. That Faith's receiving Christ and his righteousnesse, is the remote of secondary, and not the formall Reason, why it doth Iustifie, appeareth thus. 1. I would ask any dissenter this Question. Suppose that Christ had done all that he did for sinners, and they had believed in him, thereupon, without any Covenant promising Iustification to this faith: Would this faith have justified them? By what Law? Or whence will they plead their Iustification ⟨p. 147⟩at the barr of God? Well: but suppose that Christ having done what he did for us, that he should in framing the New Covenant have put in any other Condition; and said [whosoever loveth God shall by vertue of my satisfaction be Iustified.] Would not this love have Iustified? No doubt of it. I conclude then thus: The receiving of Christ, is as the silver of this coin: the Gospell-promise is as the Kings stamp which maketh it currant for justifying. If God had seen meet to have stamped any thing else, it would have passed currantly. Yet take this. Faith is, even to our own apprehension, the most apt and suitable condition that God could have chosen: (for as far as we can reach to know;) There cannot be a more Rationall & apt condition of delivering a redeemed Malefactor from Torment, then that he thankfully accept the pardon, and favour of redemption, and hereafter take his Redeemer for his Lord.