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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. Do you not forget to make a difference betwixt earth and Heaven? I assure you, if you do, it will prove a foul mistake; if you once begin to think you are in Heaven, and as you would be, and all the work is done, and you have nothing to do but return thanks, you shall ere long, I warrant you, be convinced roundly of your error. And I pray you, what do you less by this opinion, then say, Soul, take thy rest, I am well, I have enough: For if you must not labour for life, and salvation, but only in thankfulness obey him that hath saved you: What is this, but the work of Heaven? Indeed there, and only there we shall have nothing to do, but to love, and joy, and, praise, and be thankful.
4. Do you not forget to make a difference betwixt earth and Heaven? I assure you, if you do, it will prove a foul mistake; if you once begin to think you are in Heaven, and as you would be, and all the work is done, and you have nothing to do but return thanks, you shall ere long, I warrant you, be convinced roundly of your errour. And I pray you, what do you lesse by this opinion, then say, Soul, take thy rest, I am well, I have enough: For if you must not labour for life, and salvation, but onely in thankfulnesse obey him that hath saved you: What is this, but the work of Heaven? Indeed there, and onely there we shall have nothing to do, but to love, and joy, and, praise, and be thankfull.
5. Methinks, if you do but consider what Heaven and Hell, reward and the punishment are, you should easily come to your self and the truth. Heaven and reward is nothing else but the enjoyment of God eternally in perfection: Hell or the punishment is most in the loss of this enjoyment, and the self-tormentings that will eternally follow the consideration ⟨p. 269⟩thereof, and of the folly that procured it.
5. Methinks, if you do but consider what Heaven and Hell, reward and the punishment are, you should easily come to your self and the truth. Heaven and reward is nothing else but the enjoyment of God eternally in perfection: Hell or the punishment is most in the losse of this enjoyment, and the self-tormentings that will eternally follow the consideration