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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.
They take our Works to be part of our Legal Righteousness: I take them not to be the smallest portion of it: But only a part of our Evangelical Righteousness; or of the Condition upon which Christs Righteousness shall be ours.
They take our Works to be part of our Legall Righteousness: I take them not to be the smallest portion of it: But onely a part of our Evangelicall Righteousness; or of the Condition upon which Christs Righteousness shall be ours.
5. But what difference is there betwixt it and the Socinian Doctrine of Justification? Answ. In some mens mouths, Socinianism is but a word of reproach, or a stone to throw at the head of any man that saith not as they. Mr. Wotton is a Socinian, and Mr. Bradshaw, and Mr. Gataker, and Mr. Goodwin, and why not Piscator, Pareus, &c. if some zealous Divines know what Socinianism is. But I had rather study what is Scripture-truth, then what is Socinianism: I do not think that Faustus was so Infaustus, as to hold nothing true: That which he held according to Scripture is not Socinianism. ⟨p. 197⟩For my part, I have read little of their writings; but that little gave me enough, and made me cast them away with abhorrence. In a word: The Socinians acknowledge not that Christ had satisfied the Law for us; and consequently is none of our Legal Righteousness: but only hath set us a copy to write after, and is become our pattern, and that we are Justified by following him as a Captain and guide to heaven: And so all our proper Righteousness is in this obedience. Most accursed Doctrine! So far am I from this, that I say, The Righteousness which we must plead against the Laws accusations, is not one grain of it in our Faith of Works: but all out of us in Christs satisfaction. Only our Faith, Repentance, and sincere Obedience, are the Conditions upon which we must partake of the former. And yet such Conditions as Christ worketh in us freely by his Spirit.
5. But what difference is there betwixt it and the Socinian Doctrin of Justification? Answ. In some mens mouths, Socinianisme is but a word of reproach, or a stone to throw at the head of any man that saith not as they. Mr. Wotton is a Socinian, and Mr. Bradshaw, and Mr. Gataker, and Mr. Goodwin, and why not Piscator, Pareus, &c. if some zealous Divines know what Socinianisme is. But I had rather study what is Scripture-truth, then what is Socinianisme: I do not think that Faustus was so Infaustus, as to hold nothing true: That which he held according to Scripture is not Socinianisme.