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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.
1. To be an actual apprehension of Christ (which you call its instrumentality) is to be a work; Therefore, if it justify as it is such an ⟨p. 290⟩apprehension, it justifieth as a work.
1. To be an actuall apprehension of Christ (which you call its instrumentality) is to bee a work; Therefore, if it justifie as it is such an ⟨p. 290⟩apprehension, it justifieth as a work.
2. So also say I, that subjection and obedience justify, 1. Not as works simply considered; 2. Nor as legal works; 3. Nor as meritorious works; 4. Nor as Good works which God is pleased with; 5. But as the conditions to which the free Law-giver hath promised justification and life.
2. So also say I, that subjection and obedience justifie, 1. Not as works simply considered; 2. Nor as legall works; 3. Nor as meritorious works; 4. Nor as Good works which God is pleased with; 5. But as the conditions to which the free Law-giver hath promised justification and life.
Nay, your Doctrine ascribeth far more of the work to man then mine; for you make justification an effect of your own Faith, and your Faith the instrumental cause of it, and so make your self your own justifier. And you say your Faith justifieth, as it apprehendeth Christ, which is the most intrinsical; essential consideration of Faith, and so Faith hath much of the honour. But while I affirm that it justifieth only as a condition, which is an extrinsical consideration, and alien from its essence or nature, I give the glory to him that freely giveth me life, and that made so sweet a condition to his Covenant, and that enableth me to perform the said condition.