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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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If by peace we should understand the sense of Gods favour, and the declaration of it in our consciences (as by their arguments ⟨p. 35⟩they must do) then it proveth against their opinion as well as any others: for they hold that a believer needeth to pray for pardon in the declaration or sense and feeling of sin, though not for the pardon it self of sin; now there cannot be at the same time a want of the feeling of pardon of sin, and the tranquillity of conscience together: so that this place must needs be a thorn in their side.
But 2ly, the true and direct answer to this place is, that there is a twofold peace, one which is opposite to the hatred of God, 1as he is a terrible enemy to sinners, unreconciled with them, in which sense he is often described in Scripture. The other, as it is opposite to that fatherly anger and displeasure, whereby though for the main reconciled, yet he may for some particular faults be displeased; now the Apostle speaks of the former kind of peace. Being justified that is God being once reconciled with us in Christ, he hath no more hostile enmity against us, and if we do sin afterwards, he will not become an enemy to us, or satisfy his justice by punishing of us, but as a father he may in his displeasure chastise us. The sense of Gods displeasure as a father, may well stand together with an assurance, that for all this he is no enemy. A child that bitterly crieth out because of his fathers chastisements, yet even then hath that hope and comfort which he would not have if fallen into the hands or rage of an enemy that would kill him. Hence it is that we press all believers, though sorely punished for their sins, as their own hearts can tell them, yet they must never pass such a sentence, Now God is become my enemy, he deals with me as with a Judas, as with a Cain; these (we say) are sinful inferences, but they may conclude thus, God, though a loving father, is now very angry, and much displeased with me.
But 2ly, the true and direct answer to this place is, that there is a twofold peace, one which is opposite to the hatred of God,