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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.
Having explained this Petition positively and practically, we come to handle those Questions, which may make to the clearing of that truth, which is contained in the Text. And I shall pitch upon those that are useful and necessary, not on thorny and perplexed. God indeed once spake out of the thorny bush, but seldom doth truth discover her self in those thickets, which the Schoolmen have made.
HAving explained this Petition positively and practically, we come to handle those Questions, which may make to the clearing of that truth, which is contained in the Text. And I shall pitch upon those that are usefull and necessary, not on thorny and perplexed. God indeed once spake out of the thorny bush, but seldom doth truth discover her self in those thickets, which the Schoolmen have made.
The first in order that should be discussed is, What remission of sin is; Or, What is meant, when we say, God doth forgive ⟨p. 129⟩sin? But before we can come to that, another Doubt must be rolled out of the way, and that is, What sin is, and what are the proper effects of sin? For a man can never understand, what it is to have sin blotted out, or taken away, 1unless he be first informed, What the nature of sin is, and what effects it hath wrought upon the sinner. Of this therefore in the first place,
The first in order that should be discussed is, What remission of sin is; Or, What is meant, when we say, God doth forgive ⟨p. 129⟩sinne? But before we can come to that, another Doubt must be rouled out of the way, and that is, What sinne is, and what are the proper effects of sinne? For a man can never understand, what it is to have sinne blotted out, or taken away, 1