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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.
THESIS LXXI.
(1) The sincere Performance of the summary, great Command of the Law, To have the Lord only for our God, and so to love, obey, believe and trust him above all, is still naturally implied in the Conditions of the Gospel, as of absolute indispensable necessity, (2) and in order of nature, and of excellency before Faith it self: (3) But it is not commanded in the sense, and upon the terms, as under the first Covenant.
(1) THe sincere Performance of the summary, great Command of the Law, To have the Lord only for our God, and so to love, obey, believe and trust him above all, is still naturally implyed in the Conditions of the Gospell, as of absolute indispensible necessity, (2) and in order of nature, and of excellency before Faith it self: (3) But it is not commanded in the sence, and upon the terms, as under the first Covenant.
EXPLICATION.
(1) This Command need not be expressed in the Gospel Conditions, it is so naturally necessary, & implied in all: As the ultimate End need not be expressed in directions & precepts so as •he means, because ⟨p. 182⟩