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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.
2. As it is beyond doubt that Christ will then justify men according to their Works: So that this is not only to discover the sincerity of their Faith, is as evident; but that it is also, as they are parts of that Evangelical Righteousness which is the Condition of their Justification. 1. The very phrases of the Text import as much, Mat. 25. 21, 23. Well done good & ⟨p. 205⟩faithful servant, &c. Mat. 25. 34, 35. [For] I was hungry, &c. And in the rest [According] to their Works. Can any more be said of Faith, then that we are justified or judged to Life, both [for] it, and [according to] it?
2. As it is beyond doubt that Christ will then justifie men according to their Works: So that this is not onely to discover the sincerity of their Faith, is as evident; but that it is also, as they are parts of that Evangelicall Righteousness which is the Condition of their Justification. 1. The very phrases of the Text import as much, Mat. 25. 21, 23. Well done good & ⟨p. 205⟩faithfull servant, &c. Mat. 25. 34, 35. [For] I was hungry, &c. And in the rest [According] to their Works. Can any more be said of Faith, then that we are justified or judged to Life, both [for] it, and [according to] it?
2. If Works be not then considered as part of the Condition; how then? 1. Not as the Righteousness which the Law requireth: For so shall no man living be justified in the sight of God, Rom. 3. 20.