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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.
To the thirteenth and fourteenth Objections.
Your 13. and 14. Objections, which charge me not with error, but only with singularity, I will answer together. And I am the less careful to answer you in this matter, because I resolve to stand or fall to the Judgement of Scripture only. And to tell you the truth, while I busily read, what other men say in these controversies, my mind was so prepossessed with their notions, that I could not possibly see the truth, in its own nature and naked evidence: and when I entered into public disputations concerning it, though I was truly willing to know the truth, yet my mind was so forestalled with borrowed notions, that I chiefly studied how to make good the opinions which I had received, and ran further still from the truth: yea when I read the truth in Doctor Preston and other means writings, I did not consider and understand it: and when I heard it from them, whom I opposed in wrangling disputations, or read it in books of controversy, I discerned it least of all, but only was sharpened the more against it: till at last, being in my sickness cast far from home, where I had no book but my Bible, I set to study the truth from thence, and from the nature of the things, and naked evidence; and so by the blessing of God, discovered more in one week, then I had done before in seventeen ⟨p. 284⟩years reading, hearing and wrangling. Not that I therefore repent of reading other mens writings: for without that I had not been capable of those latter studies.
YOur 13. and 14. Objections, which charge me not with errour, but only with singularity, I will answer together. And I am the lesse carefull to answer you in this matter, because I resolve to stand or fall to the Judgement of Scripture only. And to tell you the truth, while I busily read, what other men say in these controversies, my mind was so prepossessed with their notions, that I could not possibly see the truth, in its own nature and naked evidence: and when I entered into publick disputations concerning it, though I was truely willing to know the truth, yet my mind was so forestalled with borrowed notions, that I chiefly studied how to make good the opinions which I had received, and ran further still from the truth: yea when I read the truth in Doctor Preston and other means writings, I did not consider and understand it: and when I heard it from them, whom I opposed in wrangling disputations, or read it in books of controversie, I discerned it least of all, but only was sharpened the more against it: till at last, being in my sicknesse cast far from home, where I had no book but my Bible, I set to study the truth from thence, and from the nature of the things, and naked evidence; and so by the blessing of God, discovered more in one week, then I had done before in seventeen