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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.
Now these things thus standing, I answer thus. 1 I acknowledge that the Law made for mankind doth primarily require obedience, and but secondarily suffering, and upon supposition of disobedience.
Now these things thus standing, I answer thus. 1 I acknowledge that the Law made for mankinde doth primarily require obedience, and but secondarily suffering, and upon supposition of disobedience.
2. But you must distinguish betwixt what the law requireth of us, and what of the Mediator: the law to the creature, and the law to the Mediator, are in several things different: The will of his Father which he came to do, consisted in many things which were never required of us: such are all the works proper to the office of Mediatorship. Now though the Law required of us mere creatures primarily Obedience active; Yet that which was principally imposed upon the Mediator and undertaken by him, was to satisfy for our disobedience: And so the principal part of his works was passive obedience, and that in him was as excellent or more then Active obedience; though in us it would not have been so; because the law did not require it of us in the first place, as it did of Christ.
2. But you must distinguish betwixt what the law requireth of us, and what of the Mediatour: the law to the creature, and the law to the Mediatour, are in severall things different: The will of his Father which he came to doe, consisted in many things which were never required of us: such are all the works proper to the office of Mediatourship. Now though the Law required of us meer creatures primarily Obedience active; Yet that which was principally imposed upon the Mediatour and undertaken by him, was to satisfie for our disobedience: And so the principall part of his works was passive obedience, and that in him was as excellent or more then Active obedience; though in us it would not have been so; because the law did not require it of us in the first place, as it did of Christ.