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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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3. As we pray thus for Justification, so also for continuance and preservation in it. As we pray for daily bread, 1though our store be full; so, Though our Justification be sure, and persevering, yet by prayer we are to be preserved in it. A certain knowledge and faith of a thing, takes not away prayers; we know certainly God will gather a Church, and preserve it to the end of the world; yet we pray, Thy Kingdom come. Paul knew Act. 27.24. that none in the Ship with him should perish, because God had given him their lives, yet none can doubt, but he prayed for their preservation, as well as used other means. Howsoever now, grievous sins committed by a David or Peter, may fasten upon them, as the Viper upon Pauls hand, yet by the grace of God, they shall not be able to unstate them out of Gods favour, but at last their repentance will revive, and so they will sue out a pardon; and certainly Gods power and grace is no less seen in preserving of us in the state of Justification, then at first justifying us.
- 13. As we pray for justification, so for the continuance in it.
4. We do not only pray for preservation in this estate, 1but for daily renewed acts of pardon, and imputation of Christs righteousness. Howsoever, as in the controversial part is to be showed, Justification is not reiterated, but is a state in which we were at first believing put into, without Apostasy from it, either total or final: yet those particular acts of pardon, and imputing of Christs righteousness, are continually by God communicated unto us: neither may we think, That our sins past, present and to come, are all taken away by one sentence, so that there is no new or iterated pardon. Then indeed Bellarmines Argument would have strength in it, That it were as absurd to pray for forgiveness of sin,