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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. But is not this conditional promise made to them before they return?
Answ. But is not this conditionall promise made to them before they return?
Object. the Promise is only to Believers, therefore not to all.
Object. the Promise is onely to Beleevers, therefore not to all.
Answ. Either you speak of the making, or of the fulfilling of it: It is fulfilled only to Believers, but it is made and offered to all that hear it, on condition of Believing, as is proved. Object. Believing is not the condition of the promise, but only the qualification of the persons to whom it is made. Answ. This Objection hath more subtlety then sense: Is not Believing (in plain English) a Duty required in the Promise by the free Promiser and Law-giver, of him to whom the Promise is made and sent, and that upon these terms, that if he perform it, the thing promised shall be his, otherwise it shall not? And is not this properly a condition required of the party if he will enjoy the thing promised? When you say [It is a qualification of the person to whom the Promise is made] you speak in the darkness of ambiguity: For 1. Do you mean it is a qualification which he hath before the Promise is made to him? If so, I have proved the contrary already. Or is it his qualification afterwards, so it is indeed: But not of all to whom it is made; but of all to whom it shall be fulfilled. Again, do you mean an habitual qualification or an Actual? I ⟨p. 247⟩doubt not, but you know it is the act of Faith which we dispute of: And what is the difference betwixt such an active qualification, required on the terms before mentioned, and a proper condition?