A26862:51
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.
1. Not but that much of Gods Will is also contained in the Law of Nature; or may by the mere use of Reason be learned from Creatures, and Providences: But yet this is nothing against the Scriptures sufficiency and perfection: For besides all the superadded Positives, the Scripture also contains all that which we call the Law of Nature; and it is there to be found more legible and discernible than in the best of our obscure, deceitful, corrupted hearts.
1. NOt but that much of Gods Will is also contained in the Law of Nature; or may by the meere use of Reason be learned from Creatures, and Providences: But yet this is nothing against the Scriptures sufficiency and perfection: For besides all the superadded Positives, the Scripture also containes all that which we call the Law of Nature; and it is there to be found more legible and discernable than in the best of our obscure, deceitfull, corrupted hearts.
2. All perfect compulsive Laws have their penalty annexed, (or else they are but merely directive) but not usually any reward propounded to the obeyers: It is sufficient that the Subject know his Sovereigns pleasure, which he is bound to observe without any reward. Mere Laws are enacted by Sovereignty: Mere Covenants are entered by equals, or persons dis-engaged to each other in respect of the contents of the Covenants, and therefore they require mutual consent. These therefore made by God, are of a mixed nature; neither mere Laws, nor mere Covenants, ⟨p. 9⟩but both. He hath enacted his Laws as our Sovereign Lord, without waiting for the Creatures consent, and will punish the breakers, whether they consent or no: But as it is a Covenant, there must be a restipulation from the Creature; and God will not perform his conditions there expressed, without the Covenanters consent, engagement, and performance of theirs.