A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.

Aphorism.

NOw they are only Afflictions of love, and not punishments.

Animadvers.

They are not so contradistinct, but that they may be co-inci∣dent. Some punishments may be afflictions of love; viz. Such as are for the correcting, purging, and reforming of the party punished. Castigatory punishments are Afflictions of love; Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten, Rev. 3. 19. Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, Heb. 12. 6. Some indeed (not only Antinomians, but others also) seem to make Chastise∣ments no judgments or punishments; but the Scripture is clear against them; When we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, &c. 1 Cor. 11. 32. I will correct thee in measure, yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished, Jer. 46. 28.

Reply.

1. You are a favourable Animadverter, who so ordinarily take my part, and defend what I say, under the name of Animadversion. You say as much as I; and in these words have fully expressed the sum of my sense. Only once or twice I care∣lesly, in compliance with the common Language, use the term [Affliction,] for [Chastisement;] which is all the occasion of exception that I yet see.

2. But it was a great oversight in you, to impute the alledged opinion or words of those that I op∣pose, to me, as if they were mine. These are my words, [The common judgment is, That Christ hath taken away the whole Curse (though not the suffer∣ing) by hearing it himself; and now they are only af∣flictions of love, and not punishments. I do not con∣tradict this Doctrine through affectation of singularity, but constraint of judgment, &c.] Had it not been ve∣ry easie to know that those are not my words or opinion, which I so professedly oppose? The same which you say some, [not Antinomians] hold, I called [the common judgment:] For indeed Peter Mar∣tyr, Zanchius, and multitudes of others against the Papists, besides late English Writers, commonly say so. But yet we have very many accurate Di∣vines that say as much as I, and contradict them, as you do: And sometimes they contradict them∣selves. My full scope therefore is to prove, that Chastisements are a species of Punishment.