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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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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.
- 1Fifth rank of Arguments.
Thus it would be with the people of God, how can they in their prayers entreat God to turn away his anger from them, to hide his face from their sins, if he were not indeed angry? Now that the petitions of Gods people are for this end, will appear by several places. I shall not here mention that petition, we are directed to in the Lords prayer, viz. forgive us our sins, for that is a noble instance, and deserveth a single consideration of its self; but we have many other instances, as Psa 51.9. Hide thy face from my sins. It is plain by this prayer, Gods face, and so his eyes were upon Davids sins though justified, and that a godly man falling into grievous sins, hath them not presently covered from Gods eyes; for his meaning by this phrase, is, that God would not regard them to