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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.
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⟩thankfulnesse) to be almost vain, and the blessed supernaturall work of the spirit upon us, to be a uselesse labour? doth not God onely create in nature, but also new create by grace in us such things as Desire, Care, Fear, Zeal, Courage, Diligence, Watchfulnesse, &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 sinne to use them for Heaven, and that while we are here in the way where we have such need of them.
10. But especially, I would have you throughly consider to what end God did fill his word so with Precepts, Prohibitions. Promises conditional▪ and Threats? Doth not almost all the Scripture for the doctrinal part consist of these? And are not Precepts to put us on to duty? And hath not every duty its end even for our selves? And can it be any other then the obtaining of the fruition of God in Heaven? so what end have the prohibition else? And what are the conditional promises for, but to stir us up to believe and to perform the conditions, that so we may enjoy the promised good? And why are the Threatenings but with the fear of the evil threatened to debtor us from the sin, and to the duty? What think you is the reason that God doth so commonly Promise Heaven, and threaten Hell, if it be unlawful for us to labour for Heaven, and