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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.
Whether there were any flat necessity of mans suffering after the fall, is doubted by many, and denied by Socinus. Whether this necessity ariseth from Gods natural Justice, or his Ordinate, viz. his Decree, and the verity of the threatening, is also with many of our own Divines a great dispute: whether God might have pardoned sin, if he had not said, the sinner shall die, may be doubted of (though I believe the affirmative, yet I judge it a frivolous presumptuous question. But the word of his threatening being once past, methinks, it should be past question that he cannot absolutely pardon, without the apparent violation of his Truth, or Wisdom. Some think that it proceedeth from his Wisdom rather then his Justice, that man must suffer: see Mr. Jo. Goodwin of justif. part. 2. pag. 34.) but why should we separate what God hath conjoined? However, whether Wisdom, or justice, or Truth (or rather all these) were the ground of it, yet certain it is, that a necessity there was that the penalty should be inflicted: or else the ⟨p. 13⟩Son of God should not have made satisfaction, nor sinners bear so much themselves.
WHether there were any flat necessity of mans suffering after the fall, is doubted by many, and denyed by Socinus. Whether this necessity ariseth from Gods naturall Justice, or his Ordinate, viz. his Decree, and the verity of the threatning, is also with many of our own Divines a great dispute: whether God might have pardoned sinne, if he had not said, the sinner shall die, may be doubted of (though I believe the affirmative, yet I judge it a frivolous presumptuous question. But the word of his threatning being once past, methinks, it should bee past question that hee cannot absolutely pardon, without the apparent violation of his Truth, or Wisdome. Some think that it proceedeth from his Wisdome rather then his Justice, that man must suffer: see Mr. Io. Goodwin of justif. part. 2. pag. 34.) but why should we separate what God hath conjoyned? However, whether Wisdome, or justice, or Truth (or rather all these) were the ground of it, yet certaine it is, that a necessity there was that the penalty should be inflicted: or else the