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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.
1Fourthly, In sin we become debtors by this means, All the good we have, whether natural or supernatural, we are betrusted with as so many talents, and for abusing of these, or not improving of them, we become debtors unto God. You have a full parable to this purpose, Mat. 25. Where you have every opportunity, even the least, that God puts into our hands, compared to a talent, and that for the greatness and preciousness of it, and a man may be accountable unto God, either propter damnum emergens, for the loss that comes to our master therein, or for lucrum cessans, the very ceasing of gain. As that servant who hid his talent in a napkin, and returned it safe again, though he was not guilty of any prodigal decoction of it, yet he is called a wicked and unprofitable servant, Now, because all our talents are many, hence our debts do arise to an infinite sum: none so indebted as those who have great wealth, great parts, Sicut crescunt dona, sic cr•scunt rations donorum, The more mercies the greater account to be given. This consideration may deeply humble us.
1Fourthly, In sin we become debtors by this means, All the good we have, whether natural or supernatural, we are betrusted with as so many talents, and for abusing of these, or not improving of them, we become debtors unto God. You have a full parable to this purpose, Mat. 25. Where you have every opportunity, even the least, that God puts into our hands, compared to a talent, and that for the greatnesse and preciousnesse of it, and a man may be accountable unto God, either propter damnum emergens, for the losse that comes to our master therein, or for lucrum cessans, the very ceasing of gain. As that servant who hid his talent in a napkin, and returned it safe again, though he was not guilty of any prodigall decoction of it, yet he is called a wicked and unprofitable servant, Now, because all our talents are many, hence our debts do arise to an infinite summe: none so indebted as those who have great wealth, great parts, Sicut crescunt dona, sic cr•scunt rationes donorum, The more mercies the greater account to be given. This consideration may deeply humble us.