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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.
Answ. Did not God give Cain a title to his Superiority and Government, and the Israelites Title to the Land of Promise? and so the rest.
Promises do give Title to the thing promised; 1. Either full and absolute: 2. Or imperfect and conditional. In the first sense we have title both by an absolute promise, and by a Conditional Promise, when we have performed the condition. In the latter sense it giveth title to men that have not yet performed the condition.
Promises doe give Title to the thing promised; 1. Either full and absolute: 2. Or imperfect and conditionall. In the first sence we have title both by an ansolute promise, and by a Conditionall Promise, when we have performed the condition. In the latter sence it giveth title to men that have not yet performed the condition.
Object. But these things which are given to wicked men, are not good to them, but evil; therefore it is not properly a promise. Answ. It is good in it self and would be to them, but for their wilful abuse. Shall mans sins make Gods promises and mercies of ⟨p. 245⟩less value? God promised that Christ should come to his own, the Jews, (Isa. 53. Mal. 3. 1, 2, 3.) and yet his own received him not, Joh. 1. 11. Shall we say therefore, that God threatened them with a Christ, rather then promised him? He promised and gave them both Prophets and Apostles; was it no promise or mercy, because they killed and persecuted them?