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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 it is not the most excellent and Gospel-like frame of spirit, to do all out of mere love to God, and from Thankfulness for life obtained by Christ, and given us.
Object, But it is not the most excellent and Gospel-like frame of spirit, to do all out of meer love to God, and from Thankfulnesse for life obtained by Christ, and given us.
Answ. 1. If it come not from love to God, it is not sincere.
2. Yet doth not the Gospel any where set our love to God, and to our own souls, in opposition; nor teach us to love God, and not our selves: but contrarily joineth them both together, and commandeth us both, The love of our selves, and desire of our preservation, would never have been planted so deeply in our natures by the God of nature, if it had been unlawful.
2. Yet doth not the Gospell any where set our love to God, and to our own souls, in opposition; nor teach us to love God, and not our selves: but contrarily joineth them both together, and commandeth us both, The love of our selves, and desire of our preservation, would never have been planted so deeply in our natures by the God of nature, if it had been unlawfull.