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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.
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?
2. Nay, hath not God put you upon farre more for your soul, then for your body? For this life, he hath bid you be carefull for nothing; cast all your care on him, for he careth for you; Care not for to morrow: Why are ye carefull 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 immortallity, 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 withall your might and strength? And yet do you think you may not act or work for life and salvation?
3. I pray you tell me, Do you ever use to pray or no? Do you think it necessary or lawful to pray (pardon me for putting such gross interrogatories to you; for the main question which you raise, is far more gross:) If you do pray, what do you pray for? Is it only for your body, or also for your soul? And is not earnest praying for life, pardon, and salvation, some proper kind of doing? it may be you will say, you pray only for Gods glory, and for the Church: But hath not God as much care of his Church and his glory, as of your soul? or may you pray for other mens souls, and not your own, when you are bound to love them but as your self? Sure, ⟨p. 268⟩if you may not make the obtaining of life, the end of your labour and duty, you may not make it the end of your Prayers, which are part of your labour and duty.