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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. There is in godly sorrow an aptness or fitness, 1to be made the means or way wherein pardon may be obtained. And this is the highest our godly sorrow can attain unto, in reference to pardon of sin, viz. an ordinability of it to be such a way, wherein we may find mercy. And thus we cannot say of impenitency, or any other sin: That God may forgive a man living in his impieties and wicked ways, for they have no aptitude or condecency in their natures, to be referred to such an end. We grant therefore that when the Spirit of God doth humble and soften a mans heart for sin, that it works that in a man, which hath a fitness to be used, as the means whereby mercy is obtained; yet that hath no merit or condignity in it to purchase salvation. Hence it is that we may not say, It is all one whether a man doth repent or not; or that repentance is in a man, as a sign only that God hath pardoned; but we must go further, and say, it is the means and way which God hath appointed antecedently to pardon, so that where this goeth before, the other cometh after.
5. There is in godly sorrow an aptnesse or fitnesse, 1to be made the means or way wherein pardon may be obtained. And this is the highest our godly sorrow can attain unto, in reference to pardon of sinne, viz. an ordinability of it to be such a way, wherein we may finde mercy. And thus we cannot say of impenitency, or any other sin: That God may forgive a man living in his impieties and wicked wayes, for they have no aptitude or condecency in their natures, to be referred to such an end. We grant therefore that when the Spirit of God doth humble and soften a mans heart for sin, that it works that in a man, which hath a fitnesse to be used, as the means whereby mercy is obtained; yet that hath no merit or condignity in it to purchase salvation. Hence it is that we may not say, It is all one whether a man doth repent or not; or that repentance is in a man, as a sign only that God hath pardoned; but we must go further, and say, it is the means and way which God hath a•pointed antecedently to pardon, so that where this goeth before, the other cometh after.
- 1Reas. 5.