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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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Now although it might fairly be maintained, that [Greek or Hebrew] not [Greek or Hebrew], the transgression of a Law, and not voluntariness,1 is of the nature of a sin; for the Apostle, Rom. 7.15. saith, He doth that which he would not do; and there are many sins of ignorance, which must necessarily be without any express act of the ⟨p. 131⟩will, yet we may with Austin call this sin voluntary, taking voluntary, as it comprehends the will of Adam, that universal person, and principle in whom we all willed. And by this means, though Infants are not in themselves capable of any precept, much less before they were born, which they were to accomplish in their own person, yet they were bound up in a command, even before they had an actual being in Adam, in whose will they were to fulfil that command, for that command was not given to Adam as a single person, but as an universal.
Now although it might fairly be maintained, that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the transgression of a Law, and not voluntariness,1 is of the nature of a sin; for the Apostle, Rom. 7.15. saith, He doth that which he would not do; and there are many sins of ignorance, which must necessarily be without any express act of the ⟨p. 131⟩will, yet we may with Austin call this sin voluntary, taking voluntary, as it comprehends the will of Adam, that universal person, and principle in whom we all willed. And by this means, though Infants are not in themselves capable of any precept, much lesse before they were born, which they were to accomplish in their own person, yet they were bound up in a command, even before they had an actual being in Adam, in whose will they were to fulfill that command, for that command was not given to Adam as a single person, but as an universal.