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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.
6. I put in the word only in the Definition; because (as is said before) I take the preferring of Christ before all others, and taking him for our Only Lord and Saviour, to be the essential difference of true Faith. There is a two-fold Verity or Sincerity in our duties requisite. 1. The verity of their natural Being, which is called their Metaphysical Truth. 2. The verity or sincerity of them as Duties or Graces, which is their Moral sincerity: This last consisteth in the true suiting of the Act to its Object. For example, one man pretendeth to love his wife, and doth not: There is neither Natural nor Moral Truth. Another doth love her, but not half so well as other women: There is the Metaphysical Truth, but not the Moral. A third loveth her as a wife above others: There is both Metaphysical Truth and Moral.
6. I put in the word onely in the Definition; because (as is said before) I take the preferring of Christ before all others, and taking him for our Onely Lord and Saviour, to be the essentiall difference of true Faith. There is a two-fold Verity or Sincerity in our duties requisite. 1. The verity of their naturall Being, which is called their Metaphysicall Truth. 2. The verity or sincerity of them as Duties or Graces, which is their Morall sincerity: This last consisteth in the true suiting of the Act to its Object. For example, one man pretendeth to love his wife, and doth not: There is neither Naturall nor Morall Truth. Another doth love her, but not half so well as other women: There is the Metaphysicall Truth, but not the Morall. A third loveth her as a wife above others: There is both Metaphysicall Truth and Morall.
So it is in our Love to God: To Love him ⟨p. 174⟩as the chief Good, is to love him as he is: And he that loveth him never so much, and yet loveth any thing else, as much or more; though his Love have a Metaphysical Truth of Being, yet it hath no Moral sincerity at all: So that the Preferring God before all, or taking him for our Only God, is the very point of sincerity of Love. Why, just so it is about our Faith: The taking him unfeignedly for our only Lord and Saviour, is the very point of the sincerity of our Faith in Christ. As Adultery is the most proper violation of the Marriage Covenant, except actual renouncing and deserting: So the taking of any other Lord or Saviour besides Christ, or conjunct with him, is the most apparent violation of the bond of our Covenant, and most contradictory to the nature and Essence of Justifying Faith: except only the Actual renouncing Christ, and the Covenant it self, by full Apostasy; which is an unpardonable sin,