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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.
So here, the great condition of Believing doth include or imply all the rest.
So here, the great condition of Beleeving doth include or imply all the rest.
I confess it is a work of some worth and difficulty, to show how each other part of the Condition is reducible to Believing; and in what respect they stand towards it. I dare not ⟨p. 153⟩determine too peremptorily here, but I think they stand thus. 1. Hearing the Word, consideration, conviction, godly sorrow, repentance from dead works, are implied as necessary means antecedents. 2. Knowledge of Christ, and Assent to the Truth of the Gospel are at least integral parts of flat necessity, if not essential parts of Faith. 3. Subjection, Acceptance, Consent, cordial covenanting, self-resigning, are the very proper essential, formal Acts of Faith.
I confess it is a work of some worth and difficulty, to shew how each other part of the Condition is reducible to Beleeving; and in what respect they stand towards it. I dare not ⟨p. 153⟩determine too peremptorily here, but I think they stand thus. 1. Hearing the Word, consideration, conviction, godly sorrow, repentance from dead works, are implyed as necessary means antecedents. 2. Knowledge of Christ, and Assent to the Truth of the Gospell are at least integrall parts of flat necessity, if not essentiall parts of Faith. 3. Subjection, Acceptance, Consent, cordiall covenanting, self-resigning, are the very proper essentiall, formall Acts of Faith.
4. Esteeming Christ above all in Judgement, preferring him before all in the Will, loving him above all; I say this preferring of Christ above all in Judgement, Will, and Affection, is (in my Judgement (the very Differentia fidei maxime propria quae de ea essentialiter praedicatur, & sic pars ejus essentialis; the very essential property of true Faith differencing it from all false Faith, and so an essential part of it. I know this is like to seem strange; but I shall give my reasons of it anon.