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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.
Object. But Love is the greater Grace, and shall out-live Faith, and Faith should rather then be swallowed up in Love.
Answ. Love considering its object only as Good, shall continue for ever, because the Goodness of its object shall so continue: But Acceptance, Consent, &c. have other additional considerations in their Objects which will vanish. But which is the chiefest Grace in it ⟨p. 172⟩self, is not the question, but which is the chiefest in the present work. Now seeing Consent, Acceptance, &c. are the chief as to Justification, that Love which is essentially in them may well lose its name here: seeing in the business of Justifying it is considered but as an essential part of the main duty.
Answ. Love considering its object onely as Good, shall continue for ever, because the Goodness of its object shall so continue: But Acceptance, Consent, &c. have other additionall considerations in their Objects which will vanish. But which is the chiefest Grace in it ⟨p. 172⟩self, is not the question, but which is the chiefest in the present work. Now seeing Consent, Acceptance, &c. are the chief as to Justification, that Love which is essentially in them may well lose its name here: seeing in the businesse of Justifying it is considered but as an essentiall part of the main duty.
My next-Reason is, because Christ doth propound it in the Gospel, as of the same necessity, with the same promises annexed to it, Jo. 16. 27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and believed, &c. Joh. 14. 21