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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.
To which I answer, 1. This proveth only, that this Knowledge or Assent is part of Faith: but not that it is the whole. 2. It is the use of Scripture to drive at that duty which is most unknown, neglected, or resisted; and to speak little of others, where there was then less need to speak, though perhaps the duty be in it self more weighty: Therefore Christ and the Apostles did spend most of their pains to persuade the Jews to this Assent: That the Messiah should come, be their deliverer, they all knew: Even the poor woman of Samaria could tell that, Joh. 4. 25. And so ready were they to Receive him, if they had known him, that it was the general expectation, and desire of the people, Mal. 3. 1. But to persuade them that Jesus was the Christ, here lay the difficulty. Therefore as Dr. Ames Medull. cap. 3. §. 20.) though sometime Assent to the Truth concerning God and Christ, Joh. 1. 50. be taken ⟨p. 176⟩for true Faith; yet the special Election or Apprehension (for that the means by Fiducia §. 13.) is still included; and those words do but determine and apply that Fiducia to Christ, which is presupposed to be already toward the Messiah.
To which I answer, 1. This proveth onely, that this Knowledg or Assent is part of Faith: but not that it is the whole. 2. It is the use of Scripture to drive at that duty which is most unknown, neglected, or resisted; and to speak little of others, where there was then lesse need to speak, though perhaps the duty be in it self more weighty: Therefore Christ and the Apostles did spend most of their pains to perswade the Jewes to this Assent: That the Messias should come, be their deliverer, they all knew: Even the poor woman of Samaria could tell that, Ioh. 4. 25. And so ready were they to Receive him, if they had known him, that it was the generall expectation, and desire of the people, Mal. 3. 1. But to perswade them that Jesus was the Christ, here lay the difficulty. Therefore as Dr. Ames Medull. cap. 3. §. 20.) though sometime Assent to the Truth concerning God and Christ,