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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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Secondly (As I showed in the Treatise of the Law) there can be no sound reason given, why God should see sin in the justified person then and not now: For did not God elect them from all eternity? Were not they in Christ, and their sins laid upon Christ? Now these are the great Arguments why God seeth no sin in believers (as they hold) and were not▪ all these as verifiable upon the godly in the Old Testament?
Secondly (As I shewed in the Treatise of the Law) there can be no sound reason given, why God should see sin in the justified person then and not now: For did not God elect them from all eternity? Were not they in Christ, and their sins laid upon Christ? Now these are the great Arguments why God seeth no sin in beleevers (as they hold) and were not▪ all these as verificable upon the godly in the Old Testament?
2. It may be answered,1 that Moses speaks here in the behalf of the whole Church then, and there were many among them that were not justified. But this is easily taken away.
- 12 Evasion answered.
1. The Scripture speaks universally, and Moses reckoneth himself in the number with them.