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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.
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.
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 essentiall property of true Faith differencing it from all false Faith, and so an essentiall part of it. I know this is like to seeme strange; but I shall give my reasons of it anon.
5. Sincerity and perseverance are the necessary Modifications of Faith: and not any thing really distinct from its Being.
6. Affiance and sincere obedience, and works of Love, are the necessary immediate, inseparable products of Faith; as heat and light are of fire; or rather as Reasoning is the product of Reason: or yet rather as ⟨p. 154⟩actions most properly conjugal, are the effects of Conjugal contract. And as Faith is in some sort more excellent then Affiance & Obedience, as the cause is better then the effect: so in some sort they may be more excellent then Faith; as the effect may be preferred before its Cause; the Act before the habit; as being that which is the end of the habit, for whose sake it is; and to which it tendeth as to its perfection.