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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 XIII.
MATTH. 6.12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
This Text shall be the last (because the noblest) to prove that God seeth sin in those that are believers; for if they be bound to pray that God would forgive them their debts, therefore they are involved in debts, and in deep humility they are to acknowledge this, withal desiring the cancelling or blotting them out; so that as the Church anciently used this place against those Pelagian Doctrines, which dreamed of a perfection in this life, and immunity from all sin, no less doth it overthrow those novel Assertions, of being without sin (though not inherently) yet as to Gods eye and account. What Tertullian said of the Lords-Prayer in general, is most true of this ⟨p. 103⟩Petition, Quantum substringitur verbis, tantum diffunditur sensibus, it is as comprehensive in sense, as straitened in words,1 so in this Petition, you have few leaves of words, but much fruit of matter; Its like Christs Mustard-seed, which by a good Interpreters managing, will grow into a tall tree. The material things that belong to remission of sins, I shall enclose as pertinent to my purpose. In the words you have the Petition it self, Forgive. Secondly, The Subject, Us, Disciples and Believers. He that thinketh himself without sin, that very thought is a sin in him. Thirdly, The Object or Matter of Petition, Our debts (that is) as