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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. 1. When they shall in plain terms renounce it, as Christians do that turn Turks.
Answ. 1. When they shall in plaine terms renounce it, as Christians do that turn Turks.
2. When they renounce or deny any fundamental Article of the Faith.
2. When they renounce or deny any fundamentall Article of the Faith.
3. When they do (not through weakness, but) wilfully and obstinately refuse to yield obedience to Christ; for this is a renouncing of their subjection to him, which is an essential part of their Covenant and Faith; and it is a renouncing of his kingly ⟨p. 250⟩Office, and so a renouncing of Christ, when they say, He shall not reign over us. And though such may acknowledge him in words, yet in works they do deny him, being disobedient, and to every good work, reprobate, Tit. 1. 16. If therefore you shall deny the seals to any man that is thus in Covenant with Christ, before he do thus disclaim his Covenant, you must do it at your peril. Therefore you must not undertake to be the Judge of his sincerity in the Covenant, except he plainly discover that he is not serious. Dare not you to assume Gods Prerogative of searching the heart, nor to dispense Gods seals upon your conjectures of the probability or improbability of mens sincerity. Neither must you deny the seals to them, for any smaller sin then as aforesaid: For as every sin is not a breach of Covenant, so every sin must not deny them the seals.
3. When they do (not through weaknesse, but) wilfully and obstinately refuse to yeeld obedience to Christ; for this is a renouncing of their subjection to him, which is an essentiall part of their Covenant and Faith; and it is a renouncing of his kingly