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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.
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 ⟨p. 269⟩thereof, and of the folly that procured it.
Now is it such a legal slavish mercenary thing for a Christian to seek after the fruition of God? Or to be careful that he may not be everlastingly deprived of it? is it possible that any sober considering man can think so?
Now is it such a legall slavish mercenary thing for a Christian to seek after the fruition of God? Or to be carefull that he may not be everlastingly deprived of it? is it possible that any sober considering man can think so?
6, Do you not think that you may and must seek after the enjoyment of God in those beginnings and fore-tastes which are here to be expected? May not that be the end of your duties, care, fear, labour, watchfulness? May you not groan after him, and enquire, and turn the stream of your endeavours this way? And may you not be jealous, and careful, and watchful, lest you should loose what of God you do enjoy; and lest any strangeness or displeasure should arise? I dare not question, but that this is the very business which you mind, and the usual frame of your spirit.