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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. If he mean not of equal value, then he fighteth with a shadow; he wrongeth Grotius, (for ought I can find in him (who teacheth no such doctrine: How-ever, I do not so use to ⟨p. 302⟩English solutio Tantidem. But if he mean that it is not equivalent in procuring its ends, ipso facto, delivering the debtor, without the intervention of a new confession or contract of the creditor, (as solutio ejusdem doth,) then I confess Grotius is against him; and so am I.
1. If he mean not of equall value, then he fighteth with a shadow; he wrongeth Grotius, (for ought I can finde in him (who teacheth no such doctrine: How-ever, I do not so use to ⟨p. 302⟩English solutio Tantidem. But if he mean that it is not equivalent in procuring its ends, ipso facto, delivering the debtour, without the intervention of a new confession or contract of the creditor, (as solutio ejusdem doth,) then I confesse Grotius is against him; and so am I.
So also [Gods Gracious acceptance] is either his accepting less in value then was due, and so remitting the rest without payment: (this I plead not for,) or else it is his accepting of a refusable payment, which though equal in value yet he may choose to accept according to the tenor of the Obligation. This is gracious acceptance, which Grotius maintaineth? and so do I; and so distinguish betwixt solutio & satisfactio, payment: and satisfaction.
So also [Gods Gracious acceptance] is either his accepting lesse in value then was due, and so remitting the rest without payment: (this I plead not for,) or els it is his accepting of a refuseable payment, which though equall in value yet he may chuse to accept according to the tenour of the Obligation. This is gracious acceptance, which Grotius maintaineth? and so doe I; and so distinguish betwixt solutio & satisfactio, payment: and satisfaction.