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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.
I Answ. Both Speeches are proper. And his simile doth not square or suit with the Case in hand: For Justifying is an extrinsical consequent, or product of Faith, and no proper effect at all: Much less an effect flowing from its own formal essence, as the life of a man doth from a Reasonable soul, and the life of a Plant from a Vegetative. I hope it may be said properly enough, that a Servant doth his work, and pleaseth his Master, by Reason, as well as by a reasonable soul: And a Plant doth please the Gardiner by augmentation, as well as per animam austricem. So that a man pleaseth God, and is Justified by sincere Obedience, as well as by a working Faith.
I Answ. Both Speeches are proper. And his simile doth not square or suit with the Case in hand: For Justifying is an extrinsecall consequent, or product of Faith, and no proper effect at all: Much lesse an effect flowing from its own formall essence, as the life of a man doth from a Reasonable soul, and the life of a Plant from a Vegetative. I hope it may be said properly enough, that a Servant doth his work, and pleaseth his Master, by Reason, as well as by a reasonable soul: And a Plant doth please the Gardiner by augmentation, as well as per animam austricem. So that a man pleaseth God, and is Justified by sincere Obedience, as well as by a working Faith.
3. How this differeth from the Papists Doctrine, I need not tell any Scholar who hath read their writings.
1. They take Justifying for Sanctifying: so do not I. 2. They quite overthrow and deny the most real difference betwixt the Old Covenant and the New: and make them in a manner all one: But I build this Exposition and Doctrine, chiefly upon the clear differencing and opening of the Covenants.
1. They take Justifying for Sanctifying: so do not I. 2. They quite overthrow and deny the most reall difference betwixt the Old Covenant and the New: and make them in a manner all one: But I build this Exposition and Doctrine, chiefly upon the clear differencing and opening of the Covenants.