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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.
1And in the first place, as we formerly considered some choice Hebrew words that set forth the pardon of sin, so now let us take notice of some Greek words in the new Testament, that express this gracious act of God: for the holy Ghost knoweth best in what words to represent this glorious mercy to us.
1And in the first place, as we formerly considered some choice Hebrew words that set forth the pardon of sinne, so now let us take notice of some Greek words in the new Testament, that expresse this gracious act of God: for the holy Ghost knoweth best in what words to represent this glorious mercy to us.
- 1From the names of it.
The word that is most frequently used by the Evangelists and Apostles is [Greek or Hebrew], which in the general, is as much as to dismiss or send away, to let alone, to leave, to permit or suffer; in which senses the Scripture often useth it: and certainly God in this sense doth pardon sin, because he lets it alone, he leaves it, he meddles no more with it, but handleth the person forgiven, as if he never had been a sinner. But commonly this word is used of absolving those who are accused as guilty, which appeareth in that famous sentence of Agesilaus, who writing to have one Nicias sent to him that was accused, used this expression, [Greek or Hebrew] ⟨p. 139⟩Nicias, if he have done no wrong, absolve him, if he have, absolve him for my sake, but howsoever absolve him, or set him free. And in this sense forgiveness of sins may well be called [Greek or Hebrew], but in the Scripture it seemeth rather to be an expression from those that are loosened out of their bonds for their debts; and therefore frequently is applied to the forgiving of debts,