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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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16. We pray, That as God doth forgive the sin, so also he would release the punishments, and take away all the wrath that doth belong to it. It is a mockery which Papists make about pardon, as if indeed God did pardon the sin, but the punishment that abideth still, and we must work out a release from that by our own selves. It is true as we have proved, God though he doth pardon sin, yet he may grievously afflict; but these are fatherly chastisements, not judicial punishments: but in this Prayer, we desire also that as the sins are removed, so also whatsoever troubles, afflictions and chastisements do remain, that they also may be taken away; that as the gulf of hell is removed, so every cloud also may be dispelled.
- 16 We pray that as God forgives the sin, so he would release the punishment.6 We pray that as God forgives the sin, so he would release the punishm•nt.
17. In this Petition, we pray, That God would deliver us from those effects of sin, which God hath immutably set upon it, such as are sicknesses, death and corruption; For although God by virtue of ⟨p. 117⟩the Covenant of Grace hath promised a perfect pardon of sin, yet we cannot come to a full enjoyment of all those privileges which remission of sin doth bring, till we be freed from death and corruption. So that as long as there is the death and grave, still sin hath some power. We therefore pray, that whatsoever mortality and corruption sin hath brought in, it may be taken away, and we made fit for eternal life, which is the consequent of pardon of sin; for you must know that pardon is not a mere privative mercy, freeing us from Gods wrath, but there is also a positive investing of us with a title to everlasting life and glory, only our corruptibility hinders us from the actual possession of that which we have a right unto: we therefore pray, That as God removed our sins, so he would also remove all the sad effects and mischievous fruit which came in by it.