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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.
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. Aristotle said, Homo est magis sensus quam intellectus, much more is he sensus then fides, more sense then faith, and what he experimentally doth most feel, in that he is most affected.
The first reason of Congruity is,1 Because hereby a man shall experimentally know the bitternesse of sin, as well as the sweetnesse 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 bitternesse for it, Jer. 2.19. Aristotle said, Homo est magis sensus quam intellectus, much more is he sensus then fides, more sense then faith, and what he experimentally doth most feel, in that he is most affected.
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2. Another Congruity is this, Hereby we shall come to prize pardon the more, and to esteem the grace of God in forgiving.