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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
again, If thou dost well, is not Levatio, that is, pardon and ease? It is then no marvel, if forgiveness of sin be accounted such a blessed thing, by those who truly feel the burden of their iniquities. Hence you have it excellently, Zech. 3.9, 10. made the cause of all quietness and content, when their sins were pardoned, then they called to their neighbours to sit under their fig-trees. And well doth Calvin call this, The chief hinge of Religion, and the truth of this Doctrine is to be sought out with all care, for what quietness can a man have till he know what judgement or esteem the Lord hath of him, and in what manner it is wrought?
again, If thou dost well, is not Levatio, that is, pardon and ease? It is then no marvel, if forgivenes of sin be accounted such a blessed thing, by those who truly feel the burden of their iniquities. Hence you have it excellently, Zech. 3.9, 10. made the cause of all quietnesse and content, when their sins were pardoned, then they called to their neighbours to sit under their fig-trees. And well doth Calvin call this, The chief hinge of Religion, and the truth of this Doctrine is to be sought out with all care, for what quietnesse can a man have till he know what judgement or esteem the Lord hath of him, and in what manner it is wrought?
Another expression of it is called covering of sin, there are two words for this, the one is Chasah, and is used properly of such a thing that is put between the object and the eye, Numb. 9.15. It is used of the Cloud that covered the tabernacle, its applied to a Garment, or any other thing that doth cover, Gen. 3.21. Its applied to God covering Adams nakedness: Hence a learned man thinks, those skins were of beasts sacrificed, which did prefigure Christ, and God by this covering, would as by an outward Symbol teach them, by whom their sins should be covered, and to this an allusion seemeth to be,