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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
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.
(4.) It must therefore be God that must satisfy God; both for the perfection of the Obedience, for dignifying of the duty and suffering, for to be capable of meriting, for the bearing of the curse, and for the overcoming of it, and doing the rest of the works of the Mediatorship, which were to be done ⟨p. 15⟩after the Resurrection. Yet mere God it must not be, but man also: or else it would have been forgiveness without satisfaction, seeing God cannot be said to make satisfaction to himself. Many other reasons are frequently given by Divines to prove the necessity of Christs Incarnation, Act. 20, 28. Heb. 1. 1, 2, 3.
(4.) It must therefore be God that must satisfy God; both for the perfection of the Obedience, for dignifying of the duty and suffering, for to be capable of meriting, for the bearing of the curse, and for the overcomming of it, and doing the rest of the workes of the Mediatorship, which were to be done ⟨p. 15⟩after the Resurrection. Yet meere God it must not be, but man also: or else it would have been forgivenesse without satisfaction, seeing God cannot be said to make satisfaction to himselfe. Many other reasons are frequently given by Divines to prove the necessity of Christs Incarnation, Act. 20, 28. Heb. 1. 1, 2, 3.
(5.) Had not Christ been perfectly righteous himself he had not been capable of satisfying for others: Yet is it not necessary that he must be in all respects a fulfiller of Righteousness before he begin the work of satisfaction, or that his righteousness and satisfaction be so distinct, as that the same may not be both righteousness and satisfactory.