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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. How commonly doth Scripture join his Offices together, calling him usually, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
4. How commonly doth Scripture joyn his Offices together, calling him usually, Our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ?
5. If we receive him not as King, we receive him not as an entire Saviour: For he saveth us, not only by dying for us, but also by reducing us really into communion with God, and guiding us by his Laws, and protecting and perfecting us by his Government, and subduing our enemies.
5. If we receive him not as King, we receive him not as an entire Saviour: For he saveth us, not onely by dying for us, but also by reducing us really into communion with God, and guiding us by his Laws, and protecting and perfecting us by his Government, and subduing our enemies.
6. His Kingly Office is a true part of his entire Office of Mediatorship: Now the sincerity of Acts in Moral respects, lieth in their true suitableness to the nature of their Objects: As God is not truly loved, except he be loved entirely: so neither is Christ truly received, if you receive him not entirely. It is a lame, partial Faith, and no true Faith, that taketh Christ only in the Notion of a deliverer ⟨p. 164⟩from guilt and punishment, without any accepting of him, as our Lord and Governor. Though I believe that the hope of being pardoned & saved is the first thing that moveth men to receive Christ, yet do they, being so moved, receive him as their Lord also, or else they do not receive him sincerely.
6. His Kingly Office is a true part of his entire Office of Mediatorship: Now the sincerity of Acts in Morall respects, lyeth in their true suitableness to the nature of their Objects: As God is not truely loved, except he be loved entirely: so neither is Christ truely received, if you receive him not entirely. It is a lame, partiall Faith, and no true Faith, that taketh Christ onely in the Notion of a deliverer