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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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LECTURE XIV.
MAT. 6.12. And forgive us our debts.
WE have already considered the object in this Petition, viz. sins, which according to the Syriac Idiotism are called debts, as alms are called righteousness, ver. 1. in an Hebraism. The next thing to be treated of, is the Petition it self, forgive us, [Greek or Hebrew]: this word is most commonly used by the Apostles to signify ⟨p. 111⟩pardon of sins; they have it about seven and twenty times; but more of this when we show what remission of sins is. The work I have for the present to do, is, to show how comprehensive this Petition is, and what it is we pray for herein. Bellarmine opposing the Doctrine of the Protestants, holding a special and peculiar faith, appropriating pardon of sin, mistaking the question, as if we maintained justifying faith to be that whereby we believe our sins are certainly forgiven us in Christ, chargeth this absurdity upon us, lib. 1. de Just. c. 10. That we take away this Petition in the Lords Prayer: For saith he, If I be bound certainly to believe my sins are forgiven already, it would be as absurd to pray that God would forgive us our sins, as to pray Christ might be incarnated, seeing we believe he was incarnated already. And l. 4. de noti• ecclesiae, c. 11. He makes this opinion of the Protestants, holding we are righteous before God for Christs sake, and the believing of this with a special faith, to be comparable with any Paradox in the world, as not being above or besides, but plainly contrary to all reason, and as that which makes it impossible for us to say, Forgive us our sins, unless we lye. It is true according to the Antinomian Divinity, which saith, there is no sin now in the Church, this Prayer doth no more belong to us then to the Angels in heaven: therefore the Antinomian makes not the meaning of this Prayer to be as if we prayed for the forgiveness which we had not before, but only for more full and rich assurance of it. Honey-Comb p.156. But the Sequel will show the falsehood of both these assertions.