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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.
But now St. James his question is, What is the Condition of our Justification by this Righteousness of Christ? Whether Faith only? or Works also?
But now St. Iames his question is, What is the Condition of our Justification by this Righteousness of Christ? Whether Faith onely? or Works also?
2. Paul doth either in express words, or in the sense and scope of his speech, exclude only the works of the Law, that is the fulfilling of the Conditions of the Law our selves. But never the fulfilling of the Gospel-Conditions that we may have part in Christ. Indeed, if a man should obey the Commands of the Gospel, with a Legal intent, that it might be a Righteousness conform to the Law of Works; this Obedience is not Evangelical, but Legal obedience: For the form giveth the name.
2. Paul doth either in expresse words, or in the sence and scope of his speech, exclude onely the works of the Law, that is the fulfilling of the Conditions of the Law our selves. But never the fulfilling of the Gospell-Conditions that we may have part in Christ. Indeed, if a man should obey the Commands of the Gospell, with a Legall intent, that it might be a Righteousnesse conform to the Law of Works; this Obedience is not Evangelicall, but Legall obedience: For the form giveth the name.
3, Paul doth by the word, Faith, especially direct your thoughts to Christ believed in; For to be justified by Christ; and to be justified by receiving Christ is with him all one.
3, Paul doth by the word, Faith, especially direct your thoughts to Christ beleeved in; For to be justified by Christ; and to be justified by receiving Christ is with him all one.