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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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So that by these Positions you may see their meaning to be, That a justified man is by Christ so cleansed, that God seeth nothing but what is perfectly holy in him: sin not only in the punishment, but in the existence of it is removed quite away as to Gods sight. Hence God takes no notice, never chastiseth them, never reproveth them, because he seeth nothing but what is exceeding good; and therefore because the justified feel the contrary, that they have sin, they commend and press faith, to live above sense, reason, and all our experience; for (say they) as a man that looks through red glass, seeth every thing red, so God looking through Christ, seeth not only our persons, but all our actions, perfectly righteous with Christ righteousness. What else may be said of their opinion, is to be spoken of, when we treat of imputed righteousness.
So that by these Positions you may see their meaning to be, That a justified man is by Christ so cleansed, that God seeth nothing but what is perfectly holy in him: sin not only in the punishment, but in the existence of it is removed quite away as to Gods sight. Hence God takes no notice, never chastiseth them, never reproveth them, because he seeth nothing but what is exceeding good; and therefore because the justified feel the contrary, that they have sin, they commend and presse faith, to live above sense, reason, and all our experience; for (say they) as a man that looks thorow red glasse, seeth every thing red, so God looking thorow Christ, seeth not only our persons, but all our actions, perfectly righteous with Christ righteousnesse. What else may be said of their opinion, is to be spoken of, when we treat of imputed righteousnesse.
1In the next place, let us consider what is Popery in this point, The Papists, as Bellarmine, lib. de Justif. c. 7. say with the Antinomian, That forgiveness of sin is the quite abolishing of it, and that whether it be original or actual, so that no sin abideth any more in a man so justified, till he falls from it; and saith Bellarmine, If the Scripture would have invented words on purpose, to show that sin is quite extinguished, it could not use other then it doth,