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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.
5. Yea the very nature of a Covenant requireth this. Consent maketh it a complete Covenant. Therefore I said before pag. 219. That Acceptance, Consent, Heart-Covenanting, and Self-resigning, are the proper essential Acts of this Faith. For all these are the Wills acts to this their object, which are of flat necessity to the very tying of the Covenant or Marriage ⟨p. 169⟩knot. Rom. 10. 10. With the heart man believeth unto Righteousness.
5. Yea the very nature of a Covenant requireth this. Consent maketh it a compleat Covenant. Therefore I said before pag. 219. That Acceptance, Consent, Heart-Covenanting, and Self-resigning, are the proper essentiall Acts of this Faith. For all these are the Wills acts to this their object, which are of flat necessity to the very tying of the Covenant or Marriage ⟨p. 169⟩knot. Rom. 10. 10. With the heart man beleeveth unto Righteousnesse.
And here let me mind you of one useful observation more.
And here let me minde you of one usefull observation more.
The Covenanting on our part, is a principal part of the Conditions of the Covenant. Though this may seem strange, that a Covenanting and performing Conditions, should be all most all one. But that is the free nature of the Grace of the Covenant. As if you marry a poor woman that hath nothing, you will give her your self, and all you have, merely upon Condition that she will Consent to have you: And that Consent is all the Condition on her part, for obtaining present possession (I say, Acceptance, Consent, Covenanting, Self-resigning; which are in a manner all one thing:) But because the end of the marriage is the faithful performance of Marriage duties, though mere Consent were the only Condition of the first possession, and the continuance of her Consent is the chief Condition of continuing her possession; yet the performance of those Marriage duties, and not going into others, is part of the Condition also of that continuance: So it is in the present case of Justification.