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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.
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⟩it is still supposed; & consultatio est tantum de mediis.
(1) THis Command need not be expressed in the Gospell Conditions, it is so naturally necessary, & implied in all: As the ultimate End need not be expressed in directions & precepts so as •he meanes, because ⟨p. 182⟩it is still supposed; & consultatio est tantum de mediis.
(2) Love to God, and taking him for our God and chief Good, is both in excellency and order of nature, before Faith in Christ the Mediator; 1. Because the End is thus before the means in excellency and intention: But God is the ultimate End; and Christ as Mediator is but the means, Joh. 14. 6. Christ is the way by which men must come to the Father. 2. The Son as God-man or Mediator, is less then the Father; and therefore the duties that respect him as their Object, must needs be the less excellent duties, Joh, 14. 13. The glory of the Son, is but a means for the glory of the Father,