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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.
Answ. 1. Sometime Faith is taken for Historical faith, or Faith of Miracles, and then it may be distinguished. 2. Sometime true Faith is taken in the strictest sense, and sometime larglier, as I shall show anon. 3. But especially; so do I distinguish of Love, as it is considered by it self, and as it is an essential part of this Acceptance. Love respecteth its Object merely as Good, in it self and to the Lover. But Consent and Acceptance have several other respects, as is expressed: And yet there may be Love in all such Acceptance; though not properly Acceptance in all Love.
Answ. 1. Sometime Faith is taken for Historicall faith, or Faith of Miracles, and then it may be distinguised. 2. Sometime true Faith is taken in the strictest sence, and sometime larglier, as I shall shew anon. 3. But especially; so do I distinguish of Love, as it is considered by it self, and as it is an essentiall part of this Acceptance. Love respecteth its Object meerly as Good, in it self and to the Lover. But Consent and Acceptance have severall other respects, as is expressed: And yet there may be Love in all such Acceptance; though not properly Acceptance in all Love.
Object. 3. Then Love Justifieth as well as Faith.
I Answ. When it is thus considered in Faiths Acceptance, it is not called by the name of Love, but loseth its name, as a lesser River that falleth into a greater; therefore it is not said that Love Justifieth; but Faith that worketh (even in its essential work of Accepting) by Love.
I Answ. When it is thus considered in Faiths Acceptance, it is not called by the name of Love, but loseth its name, as a lesser River that falleth into a greater; therefore it is not said that Love Justifieth; but Faith that worketh (even in its essentiall work of Accepting) by Love.