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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.
4. But it sealeth to Gods part of the conditional Covenant.
4. But it sealeth to Gods part of the conditionall Covenant.
5. And sealeth this conditional promise, not conditionally, but absolutely, as of undoubted truth.
5. And sealeth this conditionall promise, not conditionally, but absolutely, as of undoubted truth.
6. And not only as true in it self, but true with application to me.
So that by this time you may discern what is their meaning, who say, that the Sacraments do seal but conditionally, that is, as it sealeth to the truth of the major (which is the promise) so thereby it may be said to seal conditionally to the conclusion; for the conclusion is, as it were, therein contained, upon condition or supposition of the minor proposition. He that saith. All Believers shall be saved, saith as much as that I shall be saved; it being supposed that I am a Believer: And so you must understand our Divines in this, Yet this speech is less proper: For to speak properly, it doth not seal to the conclusion at all; yet it is very useful to help us in raising that conclusion, and to be persuaded, that we are justified, because it so confirmeth our belief of that promise, which is one of the grounds of the Conclusion.