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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.
Reader, because an exact Index would contain a great part of the Book, I shall omit it: and instead of it, I here lay thee down some of the chief Distinctions, upon which this Discourse dependeth; desiring thee to understand them, and keep them in memory. You must distinguish, 1. Betwixt Gods Decretive or Purposing Will: And his Legislative or Preceptive Will. The 1. is his Determining of Events. The 2. of Duty and Reward. 2. Betwixt 1. the Covenant or Law of Works, which saith, Obey perfectly, and Live; or sin, and Dye. 2. And the Covenant or Law of Grace, which saith, Believe, and be saved, &c. 3. Betwixt the two parts of each Covenant: viz. 1. The Primary, discovering the duty in Precepts, and prohibiting the Sin. 2. The secondary, discovering the Rewards and Penalties, in Promises and Threatenings. 4. Betwixt a two-fold Righteousness of one and the same Covenant. 1. Of perfect Obedience, or performance of the Condition. 2. Of suffering, or satisfaction for disobedience or non-performance which maketh the Law, to have nothing against us, though we disobeyed. See Pemble of Justification, pag. 2. Our Legal Righteousness is of this last sort, & not of ⟨image 116⟩the first. Both these sorts of Righteousness are not possible to be found in any one person, except Christ, who had the former Righteousness as his own, (incommunicable to us in that form) The second he had for us, as he was by imputation a sinner: And so we have it in, or by him. Mark this. 5. Betwixt two kinds of Righteousness, suitable to the two Covenants and their Conditions 1. Legal Righteousness, which is our Conformity, or satisfaction to the Law. 2. And Evangelical Righteousness, which is our Conformity to the new Covenant. Note, that 1. Every Christian must have both these. 2. That our Legal righteousness is only that of Satisfaction: but our Evangelical is only that of obedience, or performance of the Condition. 3. That our Legal Righteousness is all without us in Christ, the other in our selves. 6. Betwixt Evangelical Righteousness, improll perly so called, viz. because the Gospel doth reveal and offer it. This is our Legal righteousness o Christ. 2. And Evangelical righteousness prnt perly so called viz. Because the new Covenant is the Rule to which it is conformed. This is our performance of the new Covenants Conditions. 7. Betwixt the Life or Reward in the first Covenant: viz.