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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.
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. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and show my self to him. Jam. 1. 12. & 2. 5. The Crown and Kingdom is prepared for them that love him, 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha, Ephes. 6. 24. In a word, Faith is a comprehensive duty, containing divers Acts, whereof this seemeth to me to be part: Neither can I yet conceive, how there can be a cordial Acceptance of Christ, as our only Saviour, and Love not to be an essential part of that Acceptance: but if a finer wit can apprehend the difference better; yet as (I said) Faith being considered here in Moral and Politic respects, and not in its strict natural quiddity, may essentially be an Affectionate Acceptance, for all that.
My next-Reason is, because Christ doth propound it in the Gospel, as of the same necessity, with the same promises annexed to it, Io. 16. 27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and beleeved, &c. Joh. 14. 21. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and shew my self to him. Jam. 1. 12. & 2. 5. The Crown and Kingdom is prepared for them that love him, 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha, Ephes. 6. 24. In a word, Faith is a comprehensive duty, containing divers Acts, whereof this seemeth to me to be part: Neither can I yet conceive, how there can be a cordiall Acceptance of Christ, as our only Saviour, and Love not to be an essentiall part of that Acceptance: but if a finer wit can apprehend the difference better; yet as (I said) Faith being considered here in Morall and Politick respects, and not in its strict naturall quiddity, may essentially be an Affectionate Acceptance, for all that.