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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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1. Proposition. Lay this down as a foundation,1 That when God doth pardon sin, he takes it away so, as that the party acquitted is no more looked upon as a sinner.
1. Proposition. Lay this down as a foundation,1 That when God doth pardon sin, he takes it away so, as that the party acquitted is no more looked upon as a snner.
- 1Propos. 1.
All the expressions about pardon amount to thus much; even as when one accused of theft and murder in the Commonwealth, and is legally acquitted by the Judge, he is no more reputed a thief or murderer. Therefore it is a calumny of the Papists, as if we held, That a man is a sinner after God hath pardoned him. It is true, we say, That sin doth remain in a man, though he be justified, and that sin hath a desert of condemnation with it, but where God hath pardoned, there he doth not look upon that man as a sinner, but as a just man. Therefore in different respects we may say, That pardon of sin is an utter abolition of it, and it is not an utter abolition of it. It is an utter abolition of it, as it doth reflect upon the person, making him guilty, and obliging him actually to condemnation; in this respect a man is as free as if he had never sinned; but if you speak of the inherency of sin, and the effects of original corruption, that do abide in all, which are also truly and properly sins; so pardon of sin is not ⟨p. 142⟩an utter abolition, and although Christ wrought no semiplenam curationem, as is observed, no half-cures upon any diseased persons, but whom he healed, he healed perfectly, yet he works by degrees in the grace of Sanctification, as he did perfect the world by several degrees successively, and not (as Austin thought) all at once. So that this particular, viz. That forgiveness is a perfect abolition of sin in the former consideration, is of transcendent comfort to the believers: and indeed it is impossible that sin should be forgiven divisibly, and by parts: so a man should be at the same time under the favour of God, and under his hatred, which is impossible.