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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, The word doth imply an accounting just: And this is acknowledged by the Papists themselves, as more frequent▪ though they plead much for such a sense, as to make just. Now the truth is, there needs not much quarrel even about that signification, though the Scripture doth not manifest it: For we confess that he is made just, who is justified, and that not only in respect of the inward renovation of a man, but also in respect of justification; for God doth not account him just who is not so, and certainly to esteem a man just without righteousness, is as absurd as to account a man learned without learning, or the wall white without whiteness; only we say this Righteousness that doth to make a man just, is not inherent in him, but reckoned to him by the satisfaction of another: for a man is accounted righteous two ways, either when he is not guilty of the crime charged upon him, or when he doth make satisfaction; and in this latter sense by Christ we become righteous.2
1First, The word doth imply an accounting just: And this is acknowledged by the Papists themselves, as more frequent▪ though they pleade much for such a sense, as to make just. Now the truth is, there needs not much quarrell even about that signification, though the Scripture doth not manifest it: For we confesse that he is made just, who is justified, and that not only in respect of the inward renovation of a man, but also in respect of justification; for God doth not account him just who is not so, and certainly to esteem a man just without righteousnesse, is as absurd as to account a man learned without learning, or the wall white without whitenesse; only we say this Righteousness that doth to make a man just, is not inherent in him, but reckoned to him by the satisfaction of another: for a man is accounted righteous two waies, either when he is not guilty of the crime charged upon him, or when he doth make satisfaction; and in this latter sense by Christ we become righteous.2
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