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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.
3. That by reason of the Obligation upon us, we our selves were bound to undergo the punishment, (therefore Christs punishment was not in the Obligation, but only ours, & so the Law was not fully executed, but relaxed.)
4. He saith he meaneth not that Christ bore the same punishment due to us, in all accidents, of duration and the like; but the same in weight and pressure, (therefore not the same in the Obligation, because not fully the same: Not the same numerically; nor perhaps specifically in all respects, if the loss of Gods Love and Image, and incurring his hatred, the corruption of the body, the loss of right to, and ⟨p. 306⟩use of all the creatures and the loss of all comforts corporal or spiritual, &c. were any part of the curse.) yet that it was in the greatest respects of the same kind, I doubt not.
4. He saith he meaneth not that Christ bore the same punishment due to us, in all accidents, of duration and the like; but the same in weight and pressure, (therefore not the same in the Obligation, because not fully the same: Not the same numerically; nor perhaps specifically in all respects, if the losse of Gods Love and Image, and incurring his hatred, the corruption of the body, the losse of right to, and ⟨p. 306⟩use of all the creatures and the losse of all comforts corporall or spirituall, &c. were any part of the curse.) yet that it was in the greatest respects of the same kinde, I doubt not.
5. He saith, God had power so far to relax his own Law, as to have the name of a surety put into the Obligation, which before was not there; and then to require the whole debt of that surety.