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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.
That sin in the guilt of it is not remitted by any act that we do, but it is a mere act of God.
That sin in the guilt of it is not remitted by any act that we do, but it is a meer act of God.
So that neither the grace of repentance, or love of God is that, which removeth guilt out of the soul, but it is something in God only. It is the opinion of many Papists, That God in pardoning doth only enable to repent for sin, and then the guilt of sin doth naturally and necessarily go away, so that there needeth no acceptation from God, or act of remission, but only an infusion of grace to repent. But this in the next Sermon shall mainly be insisted upon, and it is of great practical use, to take us off from having confidence, and trust in our sorrow for sin. For as when a creditor doth forgive his debtor, it is the sole act of the creditor, not any thing of the debtor: So in pardoning, it is not any thing that we do, though with ⟨p. 145⟩never so much love, and brokenness of heart, that doth release and untie the bond of sin, but it is an act of God only.
So that neither the grace of repentance, or love of God is that, which removeth guilt out of the soul, but it is something in God onely. It is the opinion of many Papists, That God in pardoning doth onely inable to repent for sin, and then the guilt of sinne doth naturally and necessarily go away, so that there needeth no acceptation from God, or act of remission, but onely an infusion of grace to repent. But this in the next Sermon shall mainly be insisted upon, and it is of great practical use, to take us off from having confidence, and trust in our sorrow for sin. For as when a creditor doth forgive his debtor, it is the sole act of the creditor, not any thing of the debtor: So in pardoning, it is not any thing that we do, though with ⟨p. 145⟩never so much love, and brokennesse of heart, that doth release and untie the bond of sinne, but it is an act of God onely.