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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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In the second place,1 There are many reasons of congruity and fitness, why a man should repent, 2though it procure not pardon as a cause. Though God cause the Sun to shine, and the rain to fall upon the wicked as well as the righteous, yet pardon and reconciliation is not vouchsafed to the impenitent, as well as the penitent.
In the second place,1 There are many reasons of congruity and fitnesse, why a man should repent, 2though it procure not pardon as a cause. Though God cause the Sunne to shine, and the rain to fall upon the wicked as well as the righteous, yet pardon and reconciliation is not vouchsafed to the impenitent, as well as the penitent.
- 1Answ. 2.
- 2Six Reasons of congruity betwixt repentance and remission.
The first reason of Congruity is,1 Because hereby a man shall experimentally know the bitterness of sin, as well as the sweetness of it; For as God, though Christ hath fully satisfied his justice to take away all punishment, doth yet heavily afflict his own people for sin, that so they may in their own sense apprehend what wormwood and gall is in sin; so the Lord, though pardon come wholly by Christ, yet will give it to none, but to those that repent, that so according to their delight in sin, may also be their bitterness for it, Jer. 2.19