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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. Most passages in Maccovius do affirm but that Christ obeyed for us, as well as suffered for us; and who denieth that?
1. Most passages in Maccovius doe affirm but that Christ obeyed for us, as well as suffered for us; and who denyeth that?
2. Of those passages which yet go further, there is few of them that say any more then this, that Christs active Righteousness did merit for us that life and glory which is given by the New Covenant, more then we lost by breaking the Old: But this is nothing to our Question which is only about justification. For I have cleared to you before, that Justification is (properly and strictly taken) one of those acts whereby we are recovered from the condemnation of the Law, and set in statu quo prius; and not one of those acts which give us that additional glory which is Adoption, Union, Glorification.
2. Of those passages which yet goe further, there is few of them that say any more then this, that Christs active Righteousnesse did merit for us that life and glory which is given by the New Covenant, more then we lost by breaking the Old: But this is nothing to our Question which is onely about justification. For I have cleared to you before, that Justification is (properly and strictly taken) one of those acts whereby we are recovered from the condemnation of the Law, and set in statu quo prius; and not one of those acts which give us that additionall glory which is Adoption, Union, Glorification.
3. Those few Arguments which yet do drive higher then this, are so fully answered ⟨p. 294⟩already by Mr. Gataker against Lucius, Gomarrus,, &c. and Mr. Goodwin (notwithstanding Mr. Roborough's Answer) and divers others, that I am resolved not to lose so much time and labour, as to do that which is better done already, then can be expected from me.