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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.
I have been sorry to hear some able Divines, in their confessions of sin, acknowledging their frequent violation of this Covenant; yea, that in every sinful thought, word or deed they break the Covenant which they made in Baptism. Did ever any sober man make such a Covenant with Christ, as to ⟨p. 236⟩promise him never to sin against him? Or doth Christ call us to such a Covenant? Doth his Law threaten, or did we in our Covenant consent, that we should be condemned if ever we committed a gross sin? I conclude therefore, that those sins which do consist with true faith, can be no breaches of the Covenant of Grace; For else (Faith being the condition) we should both keep it, and break it, at the same time.
I have been sorry to hear some able Divines, in their confessions of sin, acknowledging their frequent violation of this Covenant; yea, that in every sinfull thought, word or deed they break the Covenant which they made in Baptism. Did ever any sober man make such a Covenant with Christ, as to ⟨p. 236⟩promise him never to sin against him? Or doth Christ call us to such a Covenant? Doth his Law threaten, or did we in our Covenant consent, that we should be condemned if ever we committed a gross sin? I conclude therefore, that those sins which do consist with true faith, can be no breaches of the Covenant of Grace; For else (Faith being the condition) we should both keep it, and break it, at the same time.
2. But all the doubt is about the sins which are inconsistent with Faith. Those are either, 1. Disobedience to the Law of Works; (but that cannot violate the Covenant of Grace as such.) 2. Or else Refusal of Christ by Rebellion and Unbelief privative,) for of negative unbelief I will not speak:) And that Refusal is either, 1. Temporary, (of that I have spoken already:) Or, 2. Final (and that I acknowledge is the violation of the Covenant.)
2. But all the doubt is about the sins which are inconsistent with Faith. Those are either, 1. Disobedience to the Law of Works; (but that cannot violate the Covenant of Grace as such.) 2. Or else Refusall of Christ by Rebellion and Unbelief privative,) for of negative unbelief I will not speak:) And that Refusall is either, 1. Temporary, (of that I have spoken already:) Or, 2. Finall (and that I acknowledg is the violation of the Covenant.)