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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.
But the last task you set me, is of all the rest most ungrateful, endless, and (in my judgement) unnecessary, viz. [To answer what other men have written against some doctrines which I have here asserted.]
But the last task you set me, is of all the rest most ungratefull, endlesse, and (in my judgement) unnecessary, viz. [To answer what other men have written against some doctrines which I have here asserted.]
1. It is a work ungrateful to search into other mens weakness and mistakes; to handle the truth in a way of contention or to speak in way of derogation of the labours of the learned and godly.
1. It is a work ungratefull to search into other mens weaknesse and mistakes; to handle the truth in a way of contention or to speak in way of derogation of the labours of the learned and godly.
2. And should I fall upon a confutation of every man that hath written contrary to any ⟨p. 292⟩thing in my Book, the task would be endless, and I might stuff a great deal of paper with words against words, and perhaps add little matter to what is already written; which is a work unfit me for to undertake who have so much better work to do, and am like to have so short a time to do it in.
2. And should I fall upon a confutation of every man that hath written contrary to any ⟨p. 292⟩thing in my Book, the task would be endlesse, and I might stuffe a great deale of paper with words against words, and perhaps adde little matter to what is already written; which is a work unfit me for to undertake who have so much better work to doe, and am like to have so short a time to doe it in.