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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.
LECTURE VIII.
JEREMIAH 50.20. In those days, and at that time the iniquity of Judah shall be sought for, and it shall not be found, &c,
JEREMIAH 50.20. In those daies, and at that time the iniquity of Judah shall be sought for, and it shall not be found, &c,
A Fifth rank of arguments is from those places of Scripture,1 wherein the people of God in their petitions and supplications, do necessarily imply this truth, that God seeth, taketh notice, and is angry with their sins. Now all petitions use to be in a two-fold faith, one applicative and fiducial, the other doctrinal and assertive, which is the foundation of the former. If a Papist pray for the deliverance of any out of purgatory, it is a vain prayer, because there is not a theological verity to ground his prayer upon: thus a Socinian cannot truly pray to God in Christ, because he hath not a dogmatical or assenting faith to the truth of Christs divine nature, and so cannot have a fiducial faith in the same.
A Fifth rank of arguments is from those places of Scripture,1 wherein the people of God in their petitions and supplications, doe necessarily imply this truth, that God seeth, taketh notice, and is angry with their sins. Now all petitions use to be in a two-fold faith, one applicative and fiduciall, the other doctrinall and assertive, which is the foundation of the former. If a Papist pray for the deliverance of any out of purgatory, it is a vain prayer, because there is not a theologicall verity to ground his prayer upon: thus a Socinian cannot truly pray to God in Christ, because he hath not a dogmaticall or assenting faith to the truth of Christs divine nature, and so cannot have a fiduciall faith in the same.