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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.
14. To hate those to whom we are indebted: Leve aes alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum; A little money borrowed makes a man a debtor, but a great deal an enemy; and so the more they owe, the more they hate: [Greek or Hebrew], said Aristotle, Debtors wish their Creditors to have no being, such is the hatred that ariseth thereby: and this is most eminently true in wicked men, They hate God because they fear him as a just Judge, who will severely demand to the last farthing: Comfortable therefore is this direction, to pray in this Petition, for hereby is supposed, that God is propitious, and ready to release us; we may have a Jubilee ever day; No devil hath any warrant to say, Forgive us our sins, God hath cast them into utter darkness, and bound them up in perpetual chains for their debts, but he is ready to forgive us. As therefore we read of David, That men in debt and distress followed him, hoping thereby to be freed from their Creditors hands, so let us follow Christ, who only is able to take off this heavy burden from us, ⟨p. 109⟩and know the longer we lie in our debts, the more they will increase upon us.
14. To hate those to whom we are indebted: Leve aes alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum; A little money borrowed makes a man a debtor, but a great deal an enemy; and so the more they owe, the more they hate: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, said Aristotle, Debtors wish their Creditors to have no being, such is the hatred that ariseth thereby: and this is most eminently true in wicked men, They hate God because they fear him as a just Judge, who will severely demand to the last farthing: Comfortable therefore is this direction, to pray in this Petition, for hereby is supposed, that God is propitious, and ready to release us; we may have a Jubile ever day; No devil hath any warrant to say, Forgive us our sins, God hath cast them into utter darknesse, and bound them up in perpetuall chains for their debts, but he is ready to forgive us. As therefore we reade of David, That men in debt and distresse followed him, hoping thereby to be freed from their Creditors hands, so let us follow Christ, who only is able to take off this heavy burden from us, ⟨p. 109⟩