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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.
1First, That God doth never remit or forgive sin, but where also he giveth a mollified and softened heart to repent.
- 1Propos. 1.
The Scripture doth abundantly confirm this by precepts and examples. It is indeed disputed by the Schoolmen (as you have heard) whether God by his absolute power might not forgive sin without Sanctification of our natures, and the grace of Repentance; for seeing they are two distinct mercies, why may not God separate the one from the other? But it is a vain thing to dispute what God might do, when he hath revealed what he will do. And although we cannot say, That there is a natural necessity between Justification and Sanctification, such as is between the light and heat in the fire; yet this conjoining of them together by Gods will and appointment, ariseth from a condecency and fitness both to God himself, who is an holy God, and to the nature of the mercy, which is the taking and removing of sin away.
The Scripture doth abudantly confirm this by precepts and examples. It is indeed disputed by the Schoolmen (as you have heard) whether God by his absolute power might not forgive sin without Sanctification of our natures, and the grace of Repentance; for seeing they are two distinct mercies, why may not God separate the one from the other? But it is a vain thing to dispute what God might do, when he hath revealed what he will do. And although we cannot say, That there is a natural necessity between Justification and Sanctification, such as is between the light and heat in the fire; yet this conjoyning of them together by Gods will and appointment, ariseth from a condecency and fitnesse both to God himself, who is an holy God, and to the nature of the mercy, which is the taking and removing of sin away.