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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.
Answ. I pray you remember that I have already proved, that Faith is the consenting to Christs Dominion and Government over us; or the accepting of him for our Lord, that we may obey him, as well as for our Saviour, that we may have affiance in him: And consequently Unbelief (in this large sense in which the Gospel useth it in opposition to that faith which is the condition of the Covenant) containeth in it all Rebellion against Christs Government: I could prove this to you out of many plain Scriptures, but the plainness of it may spare me that labour: Even in the Text objected, the word translated [Children of disobedience] doth signify both Unbelief and Disobedience; or obstinate, unpersuadable men, that will not be persuaded to believe and obey: 2 Thess. 1. 8. Christ shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance to them that obey not his Gospel: Certainly those are unbelievers. Or if you will have it plainly in Christs own words, what is the damning sin opposed to Faith, see it in Luk. 19. 27. But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring them hither, & slay them before me. It is not then for every act of those fore-mentioned sins that the everlasting wrath of God doth come upon men; for then what should ⟨p. 234⟩become of David, Noah, Lot, Mary Magdalen, and all of us? But it is for such sins as do prove and proceed from a considerate wilful refusal of Christs Government, or an unwillingness that he should reign over us: and that not every degree of unwillingness, but a prevailing degree, from whence a man may be said to be one that would not have Christ reign, &c. Because this is real unbelief it self, as opposite to that Faith which is the condition of Life, which is the receiving of Christ for Lord as well as Saviour.
Answ. I pray you remember that I have already proved, that Faith is the consenting to Christs Dominion and Government over us; or the accepting of him for our Lord, that we may obey him, as well as for our Saviour, that we may have affiance in him: And consequently Unbelief (in this large sence in which the Gospell useth it in opposition to that faith which is the condition of the Covenant) containeth in it all Rebellion against Christs Government: I could prove this to you out of many plain Scriptures, but the plainness of it may spare me that labour: Even in the Text objected, the word translated [Children of disobedience] doth signifie both Vnbelief and Disobedience; or obstinate, unperswadeable men, that will not be perswaded to beleeve and obey: