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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.
8. The denying and humbling of the flesh, the serious, painful, constant use of Gods Ordinances, Hearing, Praying, Meditating, &c. are both parts of the foresaid obedience, and also the necessary means of continuing and exercising our Faith.
8. The denying and humbling of the flesh, the serious, painfull, constant use of Gods Ordinances, Hearing, Praying, Meditating, &c. are both parts of the foresaid obedience, and also the necessary means of continuing and exercising our Faith.
9. Strength of Grace; Assurance of Pardon and Salvation; Persuasion of Gods favour; settled peace of Conscience; Joy in this Assurance and Peace; the understanding of Truths not fundamental, or necessary in practice; All these are no properties of the Condition of the Covenant; but separable adjuncts of Faith; tending to the Well-being of it; but neither tending to, nor necessary, proofs of the Being ⟨p. 155⟩of it; which a Believer should have, but may possibly want.
9. Strength of Grace; Assurance of Pardon and Salvation; Perswasion of Gods favour; setled peace of Conscience; Ioy in this Assurance and Peace; the understanding of Truths not fundamentall, or necessary in practice; All these are no properties of the Condition of the Covenant; but separable adjuncts of Faith; tending to the Well-being of it; but neither tending to, nor necessary, proofs of the Being ⟨p. 155⟩of it; which a Believer should have, but may possibly want.
I shall give you some reason of several of these Assertions, when I have first made way by the Definition of Faith.