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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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2. The calamity was general, and who can say, none of the Justified suffered under it? and this chastising of them, is that which is called setting of sins before Gods face.
2. The calamity was generall, and who can say, none of the Justified suffered under it? and this chaftising of them, is that which is called setting of sins before Gods face.
Lastly, Some places of Scripture which they bring, and the chiefest ones, for seeing no sin in believers, are universal, as this is, and spoken of the whole Church: thus my Text, The iniquity of Judah and Israel shall be sought for, and not found: so God seeth no iniquity in Jacob, that is spoken of the body of them, when yet they must acknowledge, all were not justified among them.
Lastly, Some places of Scripture which they bring, and the chiefest ones, for seeing no sin in beleevers, are universal, as this is, and spoken of the whole Church: thus my Text, The iniquity of Judah and Israel shall be sought for, and not found: so God seeth no iniquity in Jacob, that is spoken of the body of them, when yet they must acknowledge, all were not justified among them.
I will name one place more in this rank, and that is Luke 15.21: Where you have a confession of a penitent son, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee. This penitent was a son and therefore calleth God Father; and indeed he could not cease to be a son, therefore he doth not say, I am not thy son, but I am not worthy to be called thy son. As for Grotius his observation upon the place, Haec fabula declarat, quod omnes homines sunt ortu filii Dei, sede jure excidunt semet à Deo alienando, that is, this fable declareth that all men are by birth the sons of God, but they fall from that right, by alienating themselves from God, it deserveth