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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.
Yet it is true, that temporal judgements may befall us for particular sins; as also, that each particular sin doth deserve the eternal wrath which the first Covenant doth denounce; but not (in a Law-sense) that which is denounced in the second Covenant. Every great fault which a subject committeth against his Prince, is not capital, or high Treason. Every fault or disobedient act of a Wife against her Husband doth not break the Marriage Covenant, nor loose the bond: but only the sin of Adultery (which is the taking of another to the marriage bed, or the choosing of another husband (and actual forsaking the Husband, or renouncing him.
Yet it is true, that temporall judgements may befall us for particular sins; as also, that each particular sin doth deserve the eternall wrath which the first Covenant doth denounce; but not (in a Law-sence) that which is denounced in the second Covenant. Every great fault which a subject committeth against his Prince, is not capitall, or high Treason. Every fault or disobedient act of a Wife against her Husband doth not break the Marriage Covenant, nor loose the bond: but only the sin of Adultery (which is the taking of another to the marriage bed, or the choosing of another husband (and actuall forsaking the Husband, or renouncing him.
And you need not to fear lest this doctrine be guilty of Antinomianism: For their Error (which many of their adversaries also are guilty of) lieth here; That not understanding, that ⟨p. 235⟩receiving Christ as Lord is an essential act of justifying Faith, nor that the refusal of his Government is an essential part of damning unbelief, they do thereupon acknowledge no condition of Life, but bare Belief in the narrowest sense; that is, either Belief of Pardon, and Justification, and Reconciliation, or Affiance in Christ for it: so also they acknowledge no proper damning sin, but unbelief in that strict sense as is opposite to this faith; that is the not believing in Christ as a Saviour.
And you need not to fear lest this doctrine be guilty of Antinomianism: For their Error (which many of their adversaries also are guilty of) lieth here; That not understanding, that