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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.
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?
Object. But these things which are given to wicked men, are not good to them, but evill; therefore it is not properly a promise. Answ. It is good in it selfe and would be to them, but for their wilfull abuse. Shall mans sinnes make Gods promises and mercies of ⟨p. 245⟩lesse value? God promisd that Christ should come to his owne, the Jewes, (Isa. 53. Mal. 3. 1, 2, 3.) and yet his owne received him not, Ioh. 1. 11. Shall we say therefore, that God threatned 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?