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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.
So in his second part, page 190. His great note to know the voice of the Law by, is this, [that when in Scripture there is any moral work commanded to be done either for the eschewing of punishment, or upon promise of any reward temporal or eternal; or else when any promise is made with the condition of any work to be done, which is commanded in the Law; there is to be understood the voice of the Law.
So in his second part, page 190. His great note to know the voice of the Law by, is this, [that when in Scripture there is any morall work commanded to be done either for the eschuing of punishment, or upon promise of any reward temporall or eternall; or else when any promise is made with the condition of any work to be done, which is commanded in the Law; there is to be understood the voice of the Law.
A notorious and dangerous mistake, which would make almost all the New Testament, and the very Sermons of Christ himself to be nothing but the Law of works, I have fully proved before, that moral duties as part of our sincere obedience to Christ, are part of the condition of our Salvation; and for it to be performed. And even Faith is a moral duty. It is pity that any Christian should no better know the Law from the Gospel: especially one that pretendeth to discover it to others.
A notorious and dangerous mistake, which would make almost all the New Testament, and the very Sermons of Christ himself to be nothing but the Law of works, I have fully proved before, that morall duties as part of our sincere obedience to Christ, are part of the condition of our Salvation; and for it to be performed. And even Faith is a morall duty. It is pitty that any Christian should no better know the Law from the Gospel: especially one that pretendeth to discover it to others.