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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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1Thirdly, If so be the sin remaining in us did not only bring temporal evils but eternal; did not bring only a disease but hell also; then this would evacuate the fullness of Christs death, but now it doth not.
1Thirdly, If so be the sin remaining in us did not only bring temporal evils but eternal; did not bring only a disease but hell also; then this would evacuate the fulnesse of Christs death, but now it doth not.
- 13. Answer.
1A fourth Absurdity he would fetch from an Argument of Bish. Babingtons, Ejus quod non est, non est poena, but sin when it is forgiven, is not; therefore to forgiven sin there is no temporal punishment.
- 14 Absurdity objected.
1I answer first, If by that which is not, should be meant that which hath a physical and natural existence, then the Argument would prove that no sin whether forgiven or not forgiven, could damn a man, because no sin (according to the received opinion) hath any positive natural being: therefore it must be understood of a moral being, that is, a desert of punishment. Now when sin is said to be forgiven, the reason is not, at if remission of sin made sin no sin, drunkenness no drunkenness; or as if that sin did not deserve punishment, for that is inseparable from the nature of it: but forgiveness of sins takes away the actual ordination of them to condemnation. So then a sin, though forgiven, hath some kind of being, though not that of actual ordination to everlasting death; when therefore sins are said to be thrown into the bottom of the sea and they shall be no more, that is to be understood quoad hoc in respect of actual condemnation. So Davids sin was forgiven, viz. as to damn David, yet though forgiven, it was still, viz. to afflict David, and to make God angry with him.