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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.
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.
6, Do you not think that you may and must seek after the enjoyment of God in those beginnings and fore-tasts which are here to be expected? May not that be the end of your duties, care, fear, labour, watchfulnesse? May you not groan after him, and enquire, and turn the stream of your endeavours this way? And may you not be jealous, and carefull, and watchfull, lest you should loose what of God you do enjoy; and lest any strangenesse or displeasure should arise? I dare not question, but that this is the very businesse which you mind, and the usuall frame of your spirit.
And is it possible, that you can think it our duty, to seek the fore-tastes, and the first fruits of Heaven, and yet think it unlawful to labour for the full everlasting possession? How can these hang together.
And is it possible, that you can think it our duty, to seek the fore-tasts, and the first fruits of Heaven, and yet think it unlawfull to labour for the full everlasting possession? How can these hang together.
7, Consider seriously, I pray you, to what end God implanted such affections and powers in your soul. Why did he create in you a power and propensity to intend the ultimate end in all your endeavours, to value that end, to love it desire it, study and care how to obtain it; to fear the loss of it, and to loath all that resisteth your fruition,