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,…

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, sed•e• 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 ⟨p. 56⟩a double Animadversion, one for calling this Parable fabula, which although in a critical notion, it may have a right sense, yet use doth not now endure it; It would be very offensive to call Christs Parables, Christs Fables: Secondly, he showeth unsound Divinity, worse then Pelagians or Arminians, as his very expression declareth; (but to pass that) The Parable doth represent a godly man foully lapsed in sin, and now returning to God, and he accuseth himself, aggravating sin, that his Father took notice of it; and whatsoever other Doctors teach, yet this is the best way, for godly persons repenting, to aggravate their sinfulness, in reference to Gods beholding of them, and being angry with them, Quicunque sibi se excusat, accusat Deo, whosoever excuseth himself to himself, accuseth himself to God, said Salvian and Tertul. In quantum non peperceris tibi, in tantum tibi Deus (crede) parcet, so much as thou shalt not spare thy self, God (believe it) will spare thee.

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, sed•e 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