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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.
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, ⟨p. 270⟩to seek and labour after its enjoyment? Why is the love of our selves, and desire of our preservation so natural? Surely it is lawful for you to care and desire, and labour for God in Heaven, or for nothing: And its our duty to fear the loss of this, or to fear no evil at all: and I can hardly think that God would create such powers in the soul which should be utterly useless. Then let us no more cry down the abuse of our affections and powers, but the use of them; and so turn worse then Stoics: this is such a making God the Author of sin, as few men durst ever before be guilty of. And certainly, if the escaping of Hell and the obtaining of Heaven may not be the end and work of all these affections, then much less may any inferior thing.
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 losse of it, and to loath all that resisteth your fruition, ⟨p. 270⟩