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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.
13. To shift and put off, to be in continual delays, and if so, to be no further troubled. This a custom in worldly debts, if men can shift one way or other they care not: hence Horace calls the wicked debtor, Sceleratus Proteus, fiet aper, modo avis, modo saxum, & cum volét arbor, become in all shapes, to evade the Creditor, and thus it is in spiritual debts. How unwilling to acknowledge our debts, to confess them to God? I look upon all Pelagian Doctrines on one side, and Antinomian opinions on the other side, which would either make no sin in us, or at least not to be taken notice of by God, but as so many cozening cheats of a guilty heart, that is unwilling to be found a debtor before God. Cum delationem impetraveris, gauds, said Ambrose of a debtor, If men can but delay they do rejoice. And are we not all thus naturally affected, if we can from day to day get one worldly comfort after another, and so be able to support our selves, we think all is well: [Greek or Hebrew], nothing is more troublesome, then to hear, Pay what thou owest: do not therefore please thy self with delays and excuses, lest thou die in thy misery.
13. To shift and put off, to be in continuall delays, and if so, to be no further troubled. This a custome in worldly debts, if men can shift one way or other they care not: hence Horace cals the wicked debtor, Sceleratus Proteus, fiet aper, modo avis, modo saxum, & cum volét arbor, become in all shapes, to evade the Creditor, and thus it is in spirituall debts. How unwilling to acknowledge our debts, to confesse them to God? I look upon all Pelagian Doctrines on one side, and Antinomian opinions on the other side, which would either make no sin in us, or at least not to be taken notice of by God, but as so many cousening cheats of a guilty heart, that is unwilling to be found a debtor before God. Cum delationem impetraveris, gaudes, said Ambrose of a debtor, If men can but delay they do rejoice. And are we not all thus naturally affected, if we can from day to day get one worldly comfort after another, and so be able to support our selves, we think all is well: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nothing is more troublesome, then to hear, Pay what thou owest: do not therefore please thy self with delays and excuses, lest thou die in thy misery.
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