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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.
In the next place,1 if we speak of sin as it relates to the person sinning; so there is not required; first, That a man should not intend sin, and will it as sin, for that is impossible: even as the understanding cannot assent to any thing false as false, but as the object is either true really, or apparently: So neither can the will, desire any thing that is evil, as evil, but as it is apparently good. As the devil appeared in Samuel's clothes, so doth sin and evil always under the notion of some good or other. Hence the Apostle saith, Lusts saves, i. do [Greek or Hebrew], entice a man, as a Fisherman doth the silly fish by the bait upon the hook, which the Apostle elsewhere calls [Greek or Hebrew], a deceiving or putting a false ⟨p. 132⟩Syllogism upon our selves. So that they do not sufficiently vindicate the pure providence of God from sin, who say, God doth will the act, but not the deformity, or the evil of it; for so neither doth man will expressly the evil of the act, although in willing that act to which sin is necessarily annexed, it be interpretatively to will the sin.
In the next place,1 if we speak of sin as it relates to the person sinning; so there is not required; first, That a man should not intend sin, and will it as sin, for that is impossible: even as the understanding cannot assent to any thing false as false, but as the object is either true really, or apparently: So neither can the will, desire any thing that is evil, as evil, but as it is apparently good. As the devil appeared in Samuels clothes, so doth sin and evil alwayes under the notion of some good or other. Hence the Apostle saith, Lusts saves, i. do 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, entice a man, as a Fisherman doth the silly fish by the bait upon the hook, which the Apostle elswhere cals 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a deceiving or putting a false ⟨p. 132⟩Syllogism upon our selves. So that they do not sufficiently vindicate the pure providence of God from sin, who say, God doth will the act, but not the deformity, or the evil of it; for so neither doth man will expresly the evil of the act, although in willing that act to which sin is necessarily annexed, it be interpretatively to will the sin.