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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.
8. Nay, consider whether you do not make the soul and life of man to be useless as to the obtaining of any future happiness: And so you take down the blessed order which God hath established in nature by Creation, and maintained in the constant course of providence; and this you undeniably do in taking down from us the ultimate end: Take down that, and all inferior ends are nothing, and all means do lose their nature, and become useless: and so the soul of the most gracious man shall be no fitter to attain and prosecute its end, and do no more thereto then a beast or a stone; This consequence is undeniable.
8. Nay, consider whether you do not make the soul and life of man to be uselesse as to the obtaining of any future happinesse: And so you take down the blessed order which God hath established in nature by Creation, and maintained in the constant course of providence; and this you undeniably do in taking down from us the ultimate end: Take down that, and all inferiour ends are nothing, and all meanes do lose their nature, and become uselesse: and so the soul of the most gracious man shall be no fitter to attain and prosecute its end, and do no more thereto then a beast or a stone; This consequence is undeniable.
9. Nay, consider whether you do not make all the graces of the Spirit (except love, joy, and ⟨p. 271⟩thankfulness) to be almost vain, and the blessed supernatural work of the spirit upon us, to be a useless labour? doth not God only create in nature, but also new create by grace in us such things as Desire, Care, Fear, Zeal, Courage, Diligence, Watchfulness, &c. and may we not use them? Surely, if we may not use them for Heaven, then for nothing. And I cannot believe that God will at so dear a rate plant in us a heavenly nature, and these heavenly Graces, and then make it our sin to use them for Heaven, and that while we are here in the way where we have such need of them.
9. Nay, consider whether you do not make all the graces of the Spirit (except love, joy, and ⟨p. 271⟩