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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
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LECTURE V.
ROM. 3.24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace, &c.
WE come now to consider how the Antinomian can make good that Paradox of his [God chastiseth not believers because of their sins] and indeed the Author forementioned doth much sweat and tug, in bringing in several absurdities,1 which he conceives will follow upon the truth asserted by us. But before we examine them, let us take notice of the Authors great contradiction to himself in this point, and that within very few Pages; Falsehood is not only dissonant from truth, but also from it self; for whereas in the forequoted place he makes his assertion universal, that God seeth not sin in persons converted, and therefore there are no afflictions befall them because of sin: Now see how flat contrary that same Author speaks in the same book, pag. 117. for there making an opposition between the condition of believers in the Old Testament, and those in the new, he expressly gives this difference: God (saith he) saw sin in them, as they were children that had need of a rod, by reason of their non-age, but he seeth none in us, as being full-grown heirs; and again, God saw in them, and punished them for it, as they were under the Schoolmaster of the Law, but he seeth none in us: Hence pag. 99. he makes it peculiar to the time of the Law, that Moses for an unadvised word was strucken with death, and Uzzah, and Jonah, and Ely, with others temporally corrected: Therefore it was (saith he) came those terrible Famines, whereby mothers were driven to eat their own children, all was because they were under the severity of the Law, that if they did but a little step awry, they were sharply scourged for the same.