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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.
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.)
Perhaps you will object, That the sin against the Holy Ghost also is a damning sin, and so a breach of the Covenant. To which I answer, Final Unbelief is the Genus, and hath under it these three sorts. 1. Ordinary final Unbelief, viz. against Ordinary means. 2. The sin against the Holy Ghost. 3. Total Apostasy: All these are unpardonable sins.
Perhaps you will object, That the sin against the Holy Ghost also is a damning sin, and so a breach of the Covenant. To which I answer, Finall Unbelief is the Genus, and hath under it these three sorts. 1. Ordinary finall Unbelief, viz. against Ordinary means. 2. The sin against the Holy Ghost. 3. Totall Apostacy: All these are unpardonable sins.
I have in another Treatise adventured to tell you my judgment concerning the sin ⟨p. 237⟩