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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.
1. Do you think you may act for your natural life, to preserve it, or recover and repair any decayings in it? if not, why will you labour, and eat, and drink, and sleep? why will you seek to the Physician when you are sick? Do you all this in mere love, or thankfulness, or from obedience which hath no further end? Or if you do, why may you not do as much for your soul, as for your body? Is it less worth, or doth not God require it, or will he not give you leave? Hath not Christ redeemed your body also? and is it not his purchase, and charge, and work to provide for it? And yet you know well ⟨p. 267⟩enough, that this excuseth not you from your duty; and why then should it excuse you from using means for your soul?
1. Do you think you may act for your naturall life, to preserve it, or recover and repair any decayings in it? if not, why will you labour, and eat, and drink, and sleep? why will you seek to the Physician when you are sick? Do you all this in meer love, or thankfulnesse, or from obedience which hath no further end? Or if you do, why may you not do as much for your soul, as for your body? Is it lesse worth, or doth not God require it, or will he not give you leave? Hath not Christ redeemed your body also? and is it not his purchase, and charge, and work to provide for it? And yet you know well ⟨p. 267⟩enough, that this excuseth not you from your duty; and why then should it excuse you from using means for your soul?
2. Nay, hath not God put you upon far more for your soul, then for your body? For this life, he hath bid you be careful for nothing; cast all your care on him, for he careth for you; Care not for to morrow: Why are ye careful O ye of little faith? Labour not for the food that perisheth: Lay not up for your selves a treasure on earth, &c. But hath he said so concerning the life of your souls in immortality, Care not, labour not, lay not up a treasure in heaven? Or rather hath he not commanded you the clean contrary, to care, to fear, to labour, to strive, to fight, to run, and this withal your might and strength? And yet do you think you may not act or work for life and salvation?