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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.
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 ⟨p. 235⟩receiving Christ as Lord is an essentiall act of justifying Faith, nor that the refusall of his Government is an essentiall part of damning unbelief, they do thereupon acknowledge no condition of Life, but bare Belief in the narrowest sence; 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 sence as is opposite to this faith; that is the not beleeving in Christ as a Saviour.
And upon the common grounds who can choose but say as they, that neither drunkenness, nor murder, nor any sin, but that unbelief doth damn men, except he will say that every sin doth; and so set up the Covenant of Works, and deny his very Christianity, by making Christ to dye in vain: so great are the inconveniences that follow the ignorance of this one point, That justifying faith is the accepting of Christ for Lord and Saviour; and that sincere obedience to him that bought us, is part of the Condition of the new Covenant.