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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.
I answer. Because Christ hath made it the condition of the New Covenant, and promised Justification upon that Condition.
I answer. Because Christ hath made it the condition of the New Covenant, and promised Iustification upon that Condition.
But, 2. If you ask me further, Why did Christ choose this rather then any thing else for the Condition?
But, 2. If you ask me further, Why did Christ chuse this rather then any thing else for the Condition?
I. Answer. 1. To ask a Reason of Christs ⟨p. 148⟩choice and commands is not alway wise or safe. 2. But here the reason is so apparent, that a posteriore, we may safely adventure to say: That this is the most self-denying, and Christ advancing work: Nothing could be more proportionable to our poverty, who have nothing to buy with, then thus freely to receive: Nothing could be more reasonable, then to acknowledge him who hath redeemed us, and to take him for our Redeemer and Lord: many more such Reasons might be given. In a word, then Faith Justifieth primarily and properly, as it is the Condition of the New Covenant, (that is the formal reason.) And secondarily, remotely, as it is the receiving of Christ and his righteousness: (that is the aptitude of it to this use to which it hath pleased Cod to destinate it.)
I. Answer. 1. To ask a Reason of Christs ⟨p. 148⟩choice and commands is not alway wise or safe. 2. But here the reason is so apparent, that a posteriore, we may safely adventure to say: That this is the most self-denying, and Christ advancing work: Nothing could be more proportionable to our poverty, who have nothing to buy with, then thus freely to receive: Nothing could be more reasonable, then to acknowledge him who hath redeemed us, and to take him for our Redeemer and Lord: many more such Reasons might be given. In a word, then Faith Justifieth primarily and properly, as it is the Condition of the New Covenant, (that is the formall reason.) And secondarily, remotely, as it is the receiving of Christ and his righteousnesse: (that is the aptitude of it to this use to which it hath pleased Cod to destinate it.)