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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.
To conclude, that God accepteth this righteousness of satisfaction as being equivalent to that of obedience (though obedience be first in the law, and the precept the principal part) and so that he is as well pleased with us as if we had obeyed: may appear from the end & nature of satisfactory punishment. For the penalty of a perfect just law is supposed to be such, that it will make a perfect compensation or satisfaction for all the wrong we have done, to the law-maker or the public: so that being paid or suffered, we must needs in point of innocency be in statu quo prius. I know some object thus, If a thief be burnt in the hand and so the law satisfied, yet he hath lost his credit, and will not be taken or trusted for an honest man.
To conclude, that God accepteth this righteousnesse of satisfaction as being equivalent to that of obedience (though obedience be first in the law, and the precept the principall part) and so that he is as well pleased with us as if we had obeyed: may appear from the end & nature of satisfactory punishment. For the penalty of a perfect just law is supposed to be such, that it will make a perfect compensation or satisfaction for all the wrong we have done, to the law-maker or the publique: so that being paid or suffered, we must needs in point of innocency be in statu quo prius. I know some object thus, If a theef be burnt in the hand and so the law satisfied, yet he hath lost his credit, and will not be taken or trusted for an honest man.
Answ. You must distinguish 1. betwixt his breach of mans law, and his breach of Gods law.
2. Betwixt his actual fault, and his habitual ⟨p. 300⟩pravity. And then you will see, that his burning in the hand was for the breach of mans law; but the perpetual infamy is a part of the penalty inflicted by God for the breach of his law, by the same fact. 2 That his suffering was only for his actual fault: But our distrust and contempt of him is also for the pravity of his heart by that fact discovered, of which mans Law taketh not notice.