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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.
The Objection that lieth against this sense, is easier then those which are against the other. For though the body should not rise to torment ⟨p. 22⟩yet its destruction is a very great punishment: And the soul being of a more excellent and durable nature, is likely to have had the greater and more durable suffering: And though the body had a chief hand in the sin, yet the soul had the far greater guilt, because it should have commanded and governed the body; as the fault of a man is far greater then the same in a beast.
The Objection that lyeth against this sense, is easier then those which are against the other. For though the body should not rise to torment ⟨p. 22⟩yet its destruction is a very great punishment: And the soule being of a more excellent and durable nature, is likely to have had the greater and more durable suffering: And though the body had a chief hand in the sin, yet the soule had the farre greater guilt, because it should have commanded and governed the body; as the fault of a man is far greater then the same in a beast.
Yet I do not positively conclude, that the body should not have risen again; but I find no intimation of it revealed in the Scripture; but that the sentence should have been immediately executed to the full, or that any such thing is concluded in the words of the threat In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death. I do not think; for that would have prevented both the being, the sin, and the suffering of his posterity; and consequently Christ did not save any one in the world from sin or suffering but Adam and Eve, which seems to me a hard saying (though I know much may be said for it.)
Yet I do not positively conclude, that the body should not have risen againe; but I finde no intimation of it revealed in the Scripture; but that the sentence should have been immediately executed to the full, or that any such thing is concluded in the words of the threat In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death. I doe not thinke; for that would have prevented both the being, the sinne, and the suffering of his posterity; and consequently Christ did not save any one in the world from sinne or suffering but Adam and Eve, which seems to me a hard saying (though I know much may be said for it.)