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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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1Seventhly, If Gods seeing of things were limited in our capacity, only to things present, then all the by-past sins of ungodly men, though unrepented of, yet God doth not see them, because they have no present being, and so God shall not only, not see sins in the godly, but likewise not in the ungodly: All the past sins of Judas and Cain, God did not see at the day of their death, for they were p•st away. Here will be much comfort to unbelievers, as well as Believers.
- 17. Gods seeing not limited to things present.
Eighthly, If therefore God doth not see a thing because it is past, 1what need the Antinomian run to Christs merits taking away sin out of Gods sight, for this would follow by natural consequence, because the object is taken away? Take their own instances, God doth not now see the Flood that drowned the world; The Leprosy upon Naaman; The Israelites wound that is healed; why so? doth there need the blood of Christ to remove these? No, it followeth naturally, because the objects are removed and taken away; and so it would be here.
Eightly, If therefore God doth not see a thing because it is past, 1what need the Antinomian run to Christs merits taking away sin out of Gods sight, for this would follow by natural consequence, because the object is taken away? Take their own instances, God doth not now see the Floud that drowned the world; The Leprosie upon Naaman; The Israelites wound that is healed; why so? doth there need the bloud of Christ to remove these? No, it followeth naturally, because the objects are removed and taken away; and so it would be here.