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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.
2. Both these sorts in Christ, viz. his active and passive (as I conceive) do concur to make up that one sort of righteousness necessary for us, viz. Or satisfaction to the threatening: and so both conjunct are our righteousness, though not as two sorts of righteousness, but as one. Yet I know that this is somewhat dark and doubtful, because Obedience is a thing commanded and not threatened: But yet seeing Christ payed not the Idem, but the Tantundem; not the very same debt mentioned in the threatening, but the value. I think therefore that his obedience as such may go in to his satisfaction.
2. Both these sorts in Christ, viz. his active and passive (as I conceive) doe concurre to make up that one sort of righteousnesse necessary for us, viz. Or satisfaction to the threatning: and so both conjunct are our righteousnesse, though not as two sorts of righteousnesse, but as one. Yet I know that this is somewhat dark and doubtfull, because Obedience is a thing commanded and not threatened: But yet seeing Christ payed not the Idem, but the Tantundem; not the very same debt mentioned in the threatning, but the value. I think therefore that his obedience as such may goe in to his satisfaction.
3. I also freely acknowledge, that the additional happiness which we have by Christ, more then we lost in Adam, contained in our Adoption, Union with Christ and Glorification, ⟨p. 299⟩are procured by Christs active obedience as such, as well as by his satisfaction in suffering.
3. I also freely acknowledge, that the additionall happinesse which we have by Christ, more then we lost in Adam, contained in our Adoption, Union with Christ and Glorificacation, ⟨p. 299⟩are procured by Christs active obedience as such, as well as by his satisfaction in suffering.