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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
AN ANSWER to some Objections and Questions OF One that perused this… › THE ANSWER.
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 I perceive you think it a strange saying, That a man by the greatest, grossest actual sin may not be said to violate this Covenant, so as to incur its curse, but only for final unbelief: Do not the godly sometimes break Covenant with Christ?
But I perceive you think it a strange saying, That a man by the greatest, grossest actuall sin may not be said to violate this Covenant, so as to incur its curse, but only for finall unbelief: Do not the godly sometimes break Covenant with Christ?
Answ. I have two things to say to the helping of your right understanding in this, viz. a two-fold distinction to mind you of, which you seem to forget. 1. Either the gross sins, which you speak of, are such as may stand with sincerity of heart, or such as cannot: If ⟨image 124⟩they be sins of really godly men, then certainly they violate not the Covenant, so as to make them the subjects of its curse: For the Covenant saith not, He that sinneth shall be damned; nor he that committeth this, or that great sin, shall be damned: But, he that believeth not shall be damned.
Answ. I have two things to say to the helping of your right understanding in this, viz. a two-fold distinction to minde you of, which you seem to forget. 1. Either the gross sins, which you speak of, are such as may stand with sincerity of heart, or such as cannot: If ⟨image 124⟩they be sins of really godly men, then certainly they violate not the Covenant, so as to make them the subjects of its curse: For the Covenant saith not, He that sinneth shall be damned; nor he that committeth this, or that great sin, shall be damned: But, he that beleeveth not shall be damned.