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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.
how great is Gods goodness in taking you for his above others? now mark the Prophets reason, because I have done this, therefore I will visit you for your iniquities, for to all your other wickednesses you add an ingrateful heart. So there is another place, 1 Pet. 4.17. where God is said to judge them before others, and this hath been a great offence to the godly; It is time, that is, a seasonable opportunity by the decree and appointment of God, for judgement, that is, chastisements for former sins, which are called judgements, because they are public testimonies and manifestations of Gods anger against sins, and are to put the godly in mind of their sins (only it is [Greek or Hebrew] not [Greek or Hebrew] in the original) The word is used even of the godly, 1 Cor. 11.31, 32. 1 Pet. 4.6. By the house of God he meaneth the true Members of the Church, and whereas he saith it begins in them, he thereby intimates, that the godly in this life are more exposed to afflictions for sin, then the wicked are, and this made David and Jeremiah so expostulate with God in this matter, so that the godly in their afflictions ought to say, as that widow of Sarepta, 2 Kin. 17.18. This is to call my sin to remembrance.
how great is Gods goodnesse in taking you for his above others? now mark the Prophets reason, because I have done this, therefore I will visit you for your iniquities, for to all your other wickednesses you adde an ingratefull heart. So there is another place, 1 Pet. 4.17. where God is said to judge them before others, and this hath been a great offence to the godly; It is time, that is, a seasonable opportunity by the decree and appointment of God, for judgement, that is, chastisements for former sins, which are called judgements, because they are publique testimonies and manifestations of Gods anger against sins, and are to put the godly in minde of their sins (only it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in the original) The word is used even of the godly,