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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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5. Concerning this duty of repentance,1 there are two extreme practical mistakes; the one is of the profane, secure man, who makes every empty and heartless invocation of mercy, to be the repentance spoken of in the Scripture, whereas repentance is a duty compounded of many ingredients,2 and so many things go to the very essence, yea the lowest degree of godly sorrow, that by Scripture-rules we may say, Repentance is rarely to be seen any where; for if you do regard the nature of it, it is a broken and a contrite heart. Now how little of the heart is in most mens humiliations? Men being Humiliati magis quam humiles, as Bernard said, humbled and brought low by the hand of God, rather then humble and lowly in their own souls. Again, if you consider the efficient cause, it is from the Spirit of God, the spring of sorrow must arise from this hill, Zech. 12. Rom. 8. Further, if you consider the motive, it must be because God is displeased and offended, because sin is against an holy law, and so of a staining and polluting nature.
5. Concerning this duty of repentance,1 there are two extream practical mistakes; the one is of the prophane, secure man, who makes every empty and heartlesse invocation of mercy, to be the repentance spoken of in the Scripture, whereas repentance is a duty compounded of many ingredients,2 and so many things go to the very essence, yea the lowest degree of godly sorrow, that by Scripture-rules we may say, Repentance is rarely to be seen any where; for if you do regard the nature of it, it is a broken and a contrite heart. Now how little of the heart is in most mens humiliations? Men being Humiliati magis quam humiles, as Bernard said, humbled and brought low by the hand of God, rather then humble and lowly in their own souls. Again, if you consider the efficient cause, it is from the Spirit of God, the spring of sorrow must arise from this hill,