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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.
To the 9. Objection.
Your 9. Objection is, That if I make the Covenant to belong to wicked men, I may as well give them the seals.
YOur 9. Objection is, That if I make the Covenant to belong to wicked men, I may as well give them the seales.
To which I answer you, 1. You must mean only the main Covenant of grace, and not inferior promises and Covenants: For the Sacraments are only to seal to the main Covenant. 2. As you must remember I distinguished betwixt the Covenant offered and the Covenant entered by mutual consent; so must you distinguish accordingly betwixt two sorts of wicked men: 1. Open ⟨p. 249⟩Infidels, who never accepted and consented to the offered Covenant. 2. Those who have consented and entered the Covenant, and listed their names in the roll of Christ: but yet not sincerely unreservedly, entirely, as is necessary to salvation. To the former of these you may not give the seals: For they are not willing of them as such: And they are not to be forced upon any: Neither are the seals useful till the accepting and entering of the Covenant.
To which I answer you, 1. You must meane onely the main Covenant of grace, and not inferiour promises and Covenants: For the Sacraments are onely to seale to the maine Covenant. 2. As you must remember I distinguished betwixt the Covenant offered and the Covenant entred by mutuall consent; so must you distinguish accordingly betwixt two sorts of wicked men: 1. Open