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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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The first Objection therefore may be, To what purpose doth God require Repentance, seeing it is no cause of pardon? 1Why may not God forgive sin, as well without this sorrow of ours; for if it have no efficacy of it self, to deliver from the guilt of sin, then sin might be pardoned, as well without it as with it; for if the Spirit of God prepareth us for pardon, by exciting and stirring up Repentance, this Repentance must have some respect of causality ⟨p. 156⟩to pardon, or else to what purpose it is wrought? It is hard therefore to see the necessity of Repentance, unless it have such effects. Insist fortitèr poenitentiae, inhaere tanquam naufragus tabulae, said Ambrose; And this efficacy all are pron• to give to Repentance.
The first Objection therefore may be, To what purpose doth God require Repentance, seeing it is no cause of pardon? 1Why may not God forgive sin, as well without this sorrow of ours; for if it have no efficacy of it self, to deliver from the guilt of sin, then sin might be pardoned, as well without it as with it; for if the Spirit of God prepareth us for pardon, by exciting and stirring up Repentance, this Repentance must have some respect of causality ⟨p. 156⟩to pardon, or else to what purpose it is wrought? It is hard therefore to see the necessity of Repentance, unlesse it have such effects. Insiste fortitèr poenitentiae, inhaere tanquam naufragus tabulae, said Ambrose; And this efficacy all are pron• to give to Repentance.
- 1Object. 1. Of what use repentance may be.